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the golf ground, which forms a portion of the denes, 

 Smith's step-son, Arthur Bensley, saw them, and having 

 a gun with him, tried to get both birds in hue for 

 a double shot, but being unsuccessful, selected the 

 brighter of the two, its companion being at the time 

 about six yards distant from it ; when he fired, the 

 paler bird, presumably the female, flew off in a westerly 

 direction, and was no more seen. Very shortly after, 

 the bird was purchased of Smith by Mr. H. C. Knights, 

 by whom it was shown in the flesh to Mr. G. F. D. 

 Preston, and taken the next morning to Mr. Lowne for 

 preservation ; he, as before stated, forwarded the skin 

 to me the same evening. The weather being very warm 

 at the time, Mr. Lowne would not risk sending the bird in 

 the flesh, hence it was that I saw only the sl^in, but I 

 may mention that it had all the appearance of having 

 been very recently removed, and that there were still 

 many living parasites remaining on the feathers. Mr. 

 Gurney also saw the skin while it was in my possession. 

 The sternum Mr. Lowne sent to Professor Newton. The 

 total length of the bird when in the flesh, Mr. Lowne 

 tells me, was eight inches, and its weight two and a 

 quarter ounces. Mr. Knights was good enough to give 

 me the first offer of the bird, and through the liberality 

 of some friends of the Norwich Museum I was enabled 

 to purchase it for that institution, and to send this first 

 British example of the Caspian plover for exhibition at 

 the meeting of the Zoological Society, on the 17th of 

 June. 



In Mr. Dresser's figure of this species the tints of 

 the plumage are not quite so bright as in the freshly 

 killed bird before me, and the conspicuous black border 

 below the chestnut pectoral band is wanting, although 

 it is mentioned in the verbal description ; the legs also 

 are coloured and described as " ochreous yellow ; " but 

 in the Yarmouth bird they were, when fresh, un- 

 doubtedly " greenish ochreous," as described in the 

 " Ibis " by Mr. Harting, a hue which Mr. Dresser states 

 " is certainly an error," but which in this case I can 

 confirm. Mr. Harting's otherwise excellent figure is 

 much darker in colour than the Yarmouth specimen. 

 In neither of the figures referred to has the bird tlie 



