100 BIRDS OF NORFOLK. 
period (although showing their usual time of appearance 
and the localities they mostly frequent), yet whilst so 
large a proportion have been killed in the neighbour- 
hood of Yarmouth, where they are so keenly watched 
for, there is no reason, I think, to infer that they do 
not also visit other parts of the coast, where they are 
far less likely to be distinguished from the more common 
species. 
Mr. Frere informs me that, although observed on 
Breydon only in small numbers, scarcely a year passes 
without one or more examples being obtained in that 
neighbourhood, either in spring or autumn. In the 
former season they seem to arrive by the end of April or 
beginning of May (as shown by the above list, most 
frequently in the latter month) in company with other 
migrants passing rapidly northward at that period. On 
their return passage they are again seen, occasionally, 
about the first week in September, and stragglers, at 
times, even in the winter months. The fact, however, 
of this species having been seen in June, as recorded by 
Mr. Gurney, is no proof that it has ever remained to 
breed in this county (although it is quite possible that 
it may have done so unobserved), its appearance, at such 
times, being most probably accidental, as is the case 
also with the sanderling, turnstone, and grey plover, of 
which individuals may be seen, at chance times, during 
every month of the year. 
Ihave not had the opportunity of examining speci- 
mens of this bird in the flesh, but Mr. Gould describes 
the bill and legs as hard and black, whilst the same 
parts in the ringed plover are pulpy and yellow; and in 
all plumages the former may be recognised by the white 
of the breast extending upwards to the chin, without 
any interruption, which is not the case with the ringed 
plover, even in its immature state. 
