132 THE BIRDS OF DEVONSHIRE. 



more than repaid me for a rather hot walk of, 

 altogether, full twenty miles " (Zool. 1875. p. 4717). 

 It is a touching coincidence that the last lines 

 that Mr. Gatcombe ever penned for the Zoologist 

 refer to the species that he admired so much, 

 including, as they do, the only record of the 

 Dotterel remaining in England until rnid-iointer. 

 The ' Ornithological Notes from Devon and 

 Cornwall,' which appeared in the Zoologist after 

 his regretted decease (terminating " a series of 

 observations communicated by him annually to 

 this journal since the year 1872)," conclude : " On 

 the 12th [December, 1886], I purchased in the 

 Plymouth Market an immature specimen of the 

 Common Dotterel Endromias mor melius, and the 

 first local specimen I remember to have met with " 

 (Zool. 1887. p. 379). 



GOLDEN VliQiY^'R.—Gharadrius pluvialis, Linn. 



An autumn and winter visitant. Mr. A. Gr. More 

 in 1865 included the Golden Plover as "breeding 

 in small numbers in Devon," and Dr. Elliot 

 considers that it now breeds on Dartmoor. The 

 E/CV. M. A. Mathew does not, however, include it in 

 his list of Birds which breed in Devonshire, and 

 Mr. Mitchell writes that he has never known the 

 Golden Plover to nest on Dartmoor. He adds that 

 Golden Plovers arrive numerously on Dartmoor 

 early in October, that they leave the moor when 



