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he has often heard from his gamekeeper that it was quite 
easy, fifteen or twenty years ago, to shoot Dotterels, when they 
had young, on the Derbyshire hills bordering on Staffordshire. 
These hills are now nearly all under cultivation, and Sir John 
Crewe believes that the Dotterel no longer stays to breed, though 
small flocks are still seen in May. 
The bird is well known to breed on several of the mountains 
in the English Lake district, where, it is believed, its localities 
extend to the three counties of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and 
Yorkshire. And the Rev. H. B. Tristram tells me that a few 
pairs linger on the borders of Durham and Cumberland; and 
that he has heard of nests being taken on the top of Cheviot, 
where he himself has seen the birds. 
Macgillivray describes the Dotterel as breeding in the up- 
land tracts of the counties of Forfar, Kincardine, Aberdeen, 
Banff, and Moray; he also speaks ‘of small flocks settling in 
the Lammermoor hills,” so that it is possible the bird may breed 
in the south of Scotland. 
Mr. T. Edward finds the nest in Aberdeen and Banff shires ; 
and Mr. W. Dunbar marks the bird as breeding regularly in 
Sutherland and Caithness. 
Cnaranprivs uiaticuta (Linn.), Ringed Plover. 
Provinces I.-IV. VI.—XVIII. 
Subprovinces 1-3, 5-8, 10, 11, 17-19, 21, 22, 24-88. 
Lat 50°-61°. “ British” type, or general. 
More numerous in the north during summer, from the preva- 
lence of suitable localities; but breeds throughout the coasts of 
Great Britain, as well as on the margin of freshwater lakes, 
and even numerously on dry sandy warrens in the eastern 
counties. 
Obs.—The Little Ringed Plover (Charadrius curonicus, Beseke) 
has been by some supposed to breed on the shores of Sussex and 
Kent, and eggs attributed to this species are preserved in several 
collections. But there is no doubt that these eggs, as well as most 
of the birds which have been recorded in Britain as C. curenicas, 
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