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suspicious tliau the larger race, and more frequently found 

 in pairs than in flocks. 



The Dunlin's favourite breeding quarters are wild moor- 

 lands — frequently at a considerable elevation : and localities 

 of this nature are more frequent in the northern than in 

 the southern portions of the British Islands ; but where 

 such exist a few pairs may be found breeding even in the 

 extreme south. The late Mr. E. H. Rodd has recorded 

 several nests on the moors between Kilmar and Dosmare 

 Pool on Bodmin Moors, in Cornwall (Zool. ss. p. 1319) ; 

 and some probably breed in the adjoining county of Devon. 

 Although many localities in Wales would appear to be suit- 

 able, satisfactory evidence of its nidification there is as yet 

 wanting. At Wirral, and other parts of the Dee marshes 

 in Cheshire, however, a few breed. It is not known to 

 breed in Dorsetshire, nor along the south coast, nor has 

 its nest been taken in Essex, Suffolk, or Norfolk,* but in 

 Lincolnshire Mr. Cordeaux informs the Editor that on the 

 8bh June, 1883, a keeper told him that he had recently 

 found a nest of the ' Jack Snipe ' near Gainsborough, and 

 an egg, which was subsequently sent, proved to be that of 

 the Dunlin. It breeds in limited numbers on some of the 

 moorlands of Yorkshire and Lancashire. In Northumber- 

 land it used to breed regularly at Prestwick Car, where Mr. 

 John Hancock says that he has found four nests in a single 

 day ; and a few pairs still breed on the Cheviots and other 

 moorlands. In Cumberland it nests in some numbers on 

 Brough Marsh, between the Eden and the Esk. 



Passing to Scotland, the distribution of the Dunlin 

 during the breeding season becomes more general. The 

 late Mr. Alston found its nest in the Upper Ward of 

 Lanarkshire, at an elevation of 1,000 feet above the sea- 

 level, and Mr. R. Gray states that he has taken the bird 

 and eggs on several occasions on the Renfrewshire hills, 

 within full view of the city of Glasgow. Macgillivray, in a 



* The late Rev. R. Lubbock's remark that eggs brought to him as those of the 

 Jack Snipe always proved to be those of the Dunlin, might lead to an inference 

 which would be erroneous. C/. Stevenson, B. Norfolk, ii. p. 379. 



