LITTLE EINGED PLOVER KENTISH PLOVER. 97 



by Mr. Denny, the curator, to liave been killed in the 

 county, but the fact was not noted down at the time," 

 is far too vague to entitle it to a place in the Norfolk 

 ^^list," since in no other instance is it known to have 

 occurred on our eastern coast."^ One only of those 

 referred to by Mr. Lubbock, and that in a rather dilapi- 

 dated condition (British series. No. 194), is now in 

 existence. As it is quite possible, however, that this 

 smaller species has been overlooked, it may be as 

 well to point out its chief peculiarities of plumage as 

 described by Mr. Harting, from a specimen killed by 

 himself at Kingsbury. The base of the under mandible 

 only is tinged with yellow, which is lost altogether in 

 preserved specimens, and, though the outer tail feather 

 on each side has spots on the inner web, "the shaft of the 

 first quill feather, only, in the wing is white; and the 

 white spots which are always present on the webs of the 

 wing-feathers in the common species, and which give 

 the appearance of a white bar across the wing in flight, 

 are in the little ringed-plover absent." Merely the tips 

 of the wing-feathers are margined with dull white. 



CHARADRIUS CANTIANUS, Latham. 



KENTISH PLOYEE. 



The earliest record I can find of this species having 

 been recognised on the Norfolk coast, is contained in 

 a paper by the late Mr. Tarrell, in the ^^ Zoological 

 Journal" for 1827 (vol. iii., p. 86), "on the occurrence of 



* In tlie sale catalogue of Mr. Stephen Miller's Yarmoutli col- 

 lection, Lot 62 is entered as " kentish plover and little dotterel" 

 but from enquiries made of those best acquainted with this coUec- 

 lection I have no reason to suppose that this was other than the 

 common ringed plover. 

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