130 CHARADRIUS MINOR. 



breeding season upon those large extents of sand, which are 

 met with at some little distance from the borders of rivers, 

 overgrown in part with a coarse wiry grass." Mr. Hewitson 

 and Mr. Yarrell represent the egg as an inch and an eighth 

 in length, seven-eighths in breadth, pale greyish-yellow, 

 marked with numerous small spots of dark brown, reddish- 

 brown, and pale purplish-grey. A young individual of this 

 species, obtained at Shoreham, in Essex, is said to be in the 

 possession of Mr. Henry Doublcday, of Epping. 



Young. — When fledged, the young, according to M. 

 Temminck, have the parts which in the adult are black of a 

 lighter tint ; the greyish-brown of the upper parts deeper, 

 and the feathers margined with light red ; the base of the 

 bill of a pale yellowish colour. 



