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entitle it “to retain its place on the list, two near 
Eastbourne, 1866; two near Aberdeen, 1867. 
Mr. Seebohm quotes seven “unshaken occurrences.” 
With reference to the occurrences of the two birds 
shot by Edwin Lord, of Warrington, on the Mersey, in 
May, 1863, alluded to by Mr. Seebohm; and those seen 
(fortunately not shot!) in 1866 by Mr. Lord; Mr. C. S. 
Gregson, who possesses one of the birds, wrote June 12, 
1884, to Mr. Mitchell, author of the ‘Birds of Lancashire,’ 
stating that he had seen four specimens of this American 
bird in the process of being skinned by Mr. Lord. 
Mr. Seebohm says the eggs closely resemble those of 
the Killdeer Plover in some points. 
My four eggs taken by Mr. Pember at Granville, 
New York, 29th May, 1882, are more polished, creamier in 
ground tint, ruddier in spots; than my eggs of the Kill- 
deer Plover, which are (ofally without gloss, and the 
markings blackish-brown. 
THE SOLITARY SANDPIPER. 
( RHYACOPHILUS SOLITARIUS.) 
Rejected from the B.O.U. List. 
Noticed by H. Saunders. 
Admitted by Seebohm. 
The List, published in 1883, takes no notice of the occur- 
rence in 1882, September 21, in the Scilly Islands. 
Mr. Saunders, who hesitated to admit the Scilly bird, 
admits (in the preface of vol. isi, Yarrell’s British Birds) the 
occurrence, which was recorded in the Zoologist for 1885, 
of ‘Solitarius,’ shot near Marazion, Cornwall. 
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