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main highways along which this bird proceeds to and from 

 the far north. Most of the birds seen were in the perfection 

 of their summer dress. Jaubert and Barthelemy-Lapom- 

 meraye state that this bird is found on passage in November 

 and the end of March in the South of Prance. We found it 

 still quite abundant on the 31st of May, the last day spent 

 by us in the Camargue. 



^GIALITIS CANTIANA (Lath.). 



The Kentish Plover was common on the deserts and wastes 

 of the southern portion of the Camargue, and on the margins 

 of its etangs. It was also abundant in similar situations in 

 the Petite Camargue, and about the mouth of the Grand 

 Rhone. It was little seen on the sea-beach in these regions. 



^GiALiTis cuRONicA (Gmel.). 



Two Lesser Ringed Plovers seen on the margin of the 

 fitang de Consecaniere, on the 17th of May^ were the only 

 ones that came under observation. 



jEgialitis hiaticula (Linn.). 



The Ringed Plover is usually described as an abundant 

 species throughout Europe in suitable localities. The shores 

 of the Mediterranean from the mouths of the Rhone to the 

 Spanish frontier, though affording ideal haunts, are probably 

 an exception to this rule. I did not see the bird on the 

 shores of the Pyrenees Orientales in 1889, nor on those of 

 the Delta of the Rhone in 1894. Many, in a flock, were 

 observed feeding on the muds, along with the Dunlins &c,, 

 on the north shore of the Etang du Valcares on the 22nd of 

 May, and were doubtless on migration only. 



Vanellus VULGARIS, Bcchst. 



The Lapwing was observed in two localities only, and 

 in very small numbers. In the Camargue a few were 

 seen on a waste in the extreme south-east, near Beauduc. 

 In the Rhone marshes below St. Louis several were observed 

 in the neighbourhood of the Golfe de Fos. 



H^MATOPUS OSTRALEGUS, LiuU. 



The Ovstercatcher was common on the shores of the 



