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there in 1880; and two were shot at Sugwas, in 1882, which are 

 now in the Hereford Museum. 



The Grey Plover is excellent eating. Dr. Muffett, in Queen 

 Elizabeth's time, wrote both of it, and of the other Plovers, with a 

 delicate appreciation worthy of an epicure. " The gray Plover is so 

 highly esteemed, that this Proverb is raised of a curious male- 

 contented stomack, '■a gray Plover cannot please hifn.'' Yet to 

 some, the green (Golden) Plover seemeth more nourishing ; and to 

 others, the Lapwing, which indeed is savory and light of digestion, 

 but nothing comparable to Plovers." 



[Genus — ^gi alitis. ] 



[^GIALITIS CANTIANA — Kcutish PloVCr.] 



A somewhat rare visitor — but remains to breed in Kent and Sussex. 



[y^GiALiTis CURONICA — Little Ringed Plover.] 

 A rare straggler to England. 



[^GiALiTis HiATicuLA — Ringed Plover.] 

 Common on almost all our coasts. 



[tEgialitis vocifera — Killdeer Plover.] 

 Once near Christchurch, Hants. 



Genus— EUDROMIAS. 

 EUDROMIAS MORINELLUS— Dotterel. 



This neat, pretty little bird, is very rarely seen in Herefordshire. 

 The specimen in the Hereford Museum was killed some years since 

 at Backney Marsh, near Ross. A small flock, or " trip," was seen 

 by Mr. D. R. Chapman, at Letton, in 1878, but there is no further 

 record of its occurrence. 



