LITTLE RINGED PLOVER—-KENTISH PLOVER. 97 
by Mr. Denny, the curator, to have 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 PLOVER. 
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. Yarrell, in the ‘ Zoological 
Journal” for 1827 (vol. iii., p. 86), “on the occurrence of 
* In the sale catalogue of Mr. Stephen Miller’s Yarmouth col- 
lection, Lot 62 is entered as “kentish plover and little dotterel,” 
but from enquiries made of those best acquainted with this collec- 
lection I have no reason to suppose that this was other than the 
common ringed plover. 
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