96 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
larger race. I am desirous, however, to draw the special 
attention of Yarmouth ornithologists to this subject, 
that the habits of this smaller race may be closely 
observed; more particularly as to the date of its arrival 
in spring and autumn, and whether seen, at such times, 
in separate flocks or in company with the larger kind. 
T am not certain that the smaller race has ever been 
found breeding on the south coast, but in this county 
T have looked for it in vain during the nesting season, 
and, as before stated, the birds of the warrens are iden- 
tical with those which frequent the seashore. All the 
Norfolk examples, also, of this smaller ringed plover 
that I have yet seen in collections, have been killed at 
Yarmouth, including one in the Dennis collection at 
Bury St. Edmund’s. Judging from specimens of each 
bird in my own and the museum collection, the larger 
bird differs rather in its general bulk, than in the 
comparative length of wings, feet, or legs. The smaller 
ringed plover, as far as one can tell from stuffed speci- 
mens, has not the large round head and broad forehead 
of the ordinary race; the dark markings on the head and 
breast, are more pure and sharply defined; the whole of 
the upper surface of the plumage is darker in tint; and 
the bird has altogether a brighter and more dapper 
appearance. The outer tail feathers, in all that I have 
seen, have a dusky spot or two on the inner web, which is 
always white in the larger birds; the character of the 
beak appears much the same in both races, having the 
base of the upper and lower mandible yellow, which 
colour is permanent after death, but although there is 
scarcely any difference in the size of the legs and feet, 
the claws in the smaller birds are remarkably fine and 
long as compared with those of the larger race. 
Mr. Lubbock’s note on the Lirrte Rincep PLover 
(Charadrius minor, Meyer) to the effect that “two speci- 
mens of this bird in the Norwich museum, were believed 
