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BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 125 



Professor Anstecl includes the Eing Dotterel in 

 his list, but marks it as only occurring in Guernsey. 

 There is a specimen in the Museum. 



107. Kentish Plover. .Egialitis cantianus, 

 Latham. French, " Pluvier a collier interromjm." 

 I have always looked upon the Kentish Plover as 

 only a summer visitant to the Islands, never having 

 seen it in any of my visits in October and November ; 

 but Mr. Harvie Brown mentions (' Zoologist' for 1869) 

 seeing some of these birds in January, at Herm, 

 feeding with the King Dotterel, but he says they 

 always separated when they rose to fly. If he is not 

 mistaken, which my own experience inclines me 

 to think he was, we must look upon the Kentish 

 Plover as partially resident in the Islands, the 

 greater number, however, departing in the autumn. 

 Until this summer (1878) I have been unsuccessful in 

 finding the eggs of the Kentish Plover, though I have 

 had many hard searches for them ; and they are 

 very difficult to find, unless the bu'd is actually seen 

 to run from the nest, or rather from the eggs, for, 

 as a rule, nest there is none, the eggs being only 

 placed on the sand, with which they get half buried, 

 when they may easily be mistaken for a small bit 

 of speckled granite and passed by. In the summer 

 of 1866, a friend and myself had a long search for 

 the eggs of a pair we saw and were certain had eggs, 

 as they practised all the usual devices to decoy us 



