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Order LIMICOLZ. 
Family GADICNEMIDA. 
GREAT PLOVER! (Cidicnemus scolopax (S. G. Gmelin). 
Colowred Figures.—Gould, ‘ Birds of Great Britain,’ vol. iv, pl. 
35; Dresser, ‘ Birds of Europe,’ vol. vii, pl. 512; Lilford, 
‘Coloured Figures,’ vol. v, pl. 4; Booth, ‘ Rough Notes,’ 
vol? im, pl. 3: 
The name ‘ Norfolk Plover’ has also been given to this 
species, owing to the fact that it annually resorts to the dry 
sandy flats and heaths of the maritime counties of South- 
eastern England, especially Norfolk. Southward, as far as 
Dorset, it may be regarded as a regular summer-visitor, 
occurring only in lmited numbers. Elsewhere in the 
British Isles the Great Plover is rare. 
Two examples have been recorded from Scotland ; 
namely, a bird obtained close to St. Andrews, in January, 
1858, and another procured in Dumbartonshire, in August, 
1897 (Saunders). 
Ireland has yielded about eleven specimens, nine of 
which were taken on the east coast. The most recent 
record is that of a bird obtained in co. Donegal on October 
12th, 1903 (D. C. Campbell, ‘ Irish Naturalist,’ 1904, p. 119). 
The other counties from which the bird has been obtained 
and the dates of capture are as follows :-— 
Dublin :—One, January 27th, 1829, the earliest record 
(Thompson) ; another, 1849 (Kinahan, Proc. Dub. Univ. 
Zool. Soc., 1854); a third, 1853. (Kinahan, Proc. Dub. 
Nat. Hist. Soc., 1860) ; a fourth, January 4th, 1868 (Blake- 
Knox, ‘Zoologist, 1868); a fifth, December 3rd, 1884 
(More, ‘ List of Irish Birds’); this specimen is preserved in 
the Dublin Museum. 
1 Also known as the Stone-Curlew. 
