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appearance when in summer plumage ; in winter the 

 chin and throat are white. Occasionally white, or 

 nearly white, examples are met with. The weight 

 of this bird when in good condition is about the 

 same as that of a Grey Plover, about 8 oz. to 10 oz. 



DOTTEREL. Eudrcnnias morinellus (Linnseus). PI. 19, 

 fig. 4. Length, 95 in. ; bill, -6 in.; wing, 6 in. ; tarsus, 

 I'D in. 



A spring and autumn migrant, a few pairs 

 remaining to breed annually on the high ranges 

 of Westmorland and Cumberland, Forfar, Kin- 

 cardine, Aberdeen, Banff", and Moray. In Suther- 

 land and Caithness there is no recent evidence of 

 nesting. Three nests, each containing three eggs, 

 were found in Elginshire in May and June 1853 

 (Thurnall, Naturalist, 1853, p. 254). An interest- 

 ing account of its nesting -habits as observed in 

 Cumberland is given by Hey sham [Mag. Nat. Hist., 

 1838, p. 295). He found three eggs on Whiteside, 

 contiguous to Helvellyn, on the 29th of June, and 

 two more on Robinson, in the vicinity of Butter- 

 mere, on July 5. A more recent account by Mr. F. 

 Nicholson is published, with a coloured figure of the 

 bird, in Macpherson's "Birds of Cumberland " and 

 " The Fauna of Lakeland," while a graphic descrip- 

 tion of the discovery of a nest in Morayshire in June 

 1873, by Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Feilden, is given 

 in "The Fauna of the Moray Basin," vol. ii. p. 171. 



Although rare in Ireland, there is some reason to 

 suppose that this bird may breed annually, but in 



