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represent a smaller race of C. hiaticula. Certain it is that on the 
continent C. curonicus is described as frequenting principally fresh 
water and large rivers. The specimens which Ihave seen from Sus- 
sex seem scarcely distinguishable, except in size, from C. hiaticula, 
and very different from the true C. curonicus, which is well known 
to every practical ornithologist. 
Cuaraprius cantianus (Lath.). Kentish Plover. 
Provinces IT. III. 
Subprovinces 6, 7. 
Lat 50°-52°. “Germanic” type. Not in Ireland. 
One of the most local of our indigenous birds, breeding only 
in Sussex and Kent, in both of which counties it is very scarce. 
VANELLUS CRISTATUS (Meyer). Lapwing. 
Provinces I.-X VIII. 
Subprovinces 1-38. 
Lat. 50°-61°.  “ British” type, or general. 
More numerous on the heaths and moors of the north, but is 
included in every county list as breeding regularly. 
H aMaTopus osTRALEGUS (Linn.). Oyster-catcher. 
Provinces I.-IV. VI.-VIII. [1X.] XI.-X VIII. 
Subprovinces 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 11, 17, 18, (19), (21), 24-26, 28-38. 
Lat. 50°-61°. “Scottish” type. 
In the south of England the Oyster-catcher is comparatively 
rare in summer; and though it breeds regularly in Cornwall and 
Devon, a few pairs only occur along the south coast; nor is it 
much more numerous on the eastern side of England. Thus, 
though ranging from extreme south to north during the breeding- 
season, it belongs more properly to the “ Scottish ” than to the 
“ British ” type. 
Obs.—The Crane (Grus cinerea, Bechst.) is spoken of by 
Turner (Avium Historia, 1543) as breeding in this country. 
This author says, “ earum pipiones ipse sepissime vidi ;” and 
an Act of Parliament, passed in 1533, made the taking of a 
