256 Messrs. A. and E. Newtou's Observations 



from those of our own Golden Plover (C. pluvialis, L.) in England, 

 and probably from their own at other times when not wind-bound 

 and wearied — but run the gauntlet of the carriages, only twisting 

 from one to get shot at from another, and often, after flying 

 round once or twice, pitching within a short distance*. In 1858, 

 I heard of their first occurrence on August 31st. 



" It is rather a curious fact, that I did not see a single Plover 

 that had not more or less trace of the black breast of the breeding- 

 plumage remaining ; and I saw some hundreds ; it would seem 

 therefore that the young birds must take a different line in their 

 migration from their parents. The bird with the black breast 

 is always called simply the * Plover,' and is spoken of in the 

 island as distinct from the ' Golden Plover.' This latter I did 

 not meet with ; but in my opinion it is most likely the young of 

 the present species, keeping in separate flocks and migrating at 

 a different time, — a habit possessed by birds of passage, first 

 noticed, I believe, by M. Temminckf." — E. N. 



31. Turnstone. Strepsilas interpres, Illig. ; Wils. pi. 57. 

 fig. 1 ; Aud. pi. 304; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 318 ; Yarr. B. B. ii. 

 p. 423 (fig.). 



" I saw a company of five or six of this thoroughly cosmopo- 

 litan species in the beginning of April, 1857, on the south 

 shore of the island." — A. N. 



" I shot two Turnstones from a flock of three on the sea- 

 shore, Sept. 8th, 1858. One was a young, the other an old 

 bird."— E. N. 



32. Sanderling. Calidris arenaria, Cuv. ; Wils. pi. 59. 

 fig. 4, and pi. 63. fig. 3 ; Aud. pi. 338 ; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 335 ; 

 Yarr. B. B. ii. p. 427 (fig.). 



" I killed a female bird Sept. 13th, 1858."— E. N. 

 Examples of this species from the New World seem to be 

 constantly larger than those from the Old. 



* " So much of the above is identical in opinion, if not in language, with 

 the expressions made use of by Mr. Hurdis, in his ornithological notes con- 

 tributed to Mr. J. M. Jones's excellent little book ' The Naturalist in 

 Bermuda' (pp. 71 et seq.), that I feel it necessary to mention that this 

 paper was written before I had seen that work." — E. N. 



t Manuel d'Ornithologie, 3me partie, lutr., ]). xlhi., note. 



