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Wild Birds Protection Act, 1894—The eggs are protected in the following counties* :— 
Stone Curlew. ENGLAND: Herts; Kent; Norfolk; West Suffolk. ScoTLanp: Orkney. 
Golden Plover.—ENGLAND: Northumberland; Westmoreland. ScoTLanp: Aberdeen ; 
Elgin ; Orkney. IRELAND: Roscommon. 
Ringed Plover.—ENncGLanD: Northumberland (Farne Island); Norfolk ; Lincoln 
(specified area in Lindsey) ; Dorset (specified area). ScoTLAND: Berwick ; Dumfries ; 
Elgin ; Haddington ; Kirkcudbright ; Orkney ; and Wigtown. 
Kentish Plover.—ENGLAND: Kent. 
Lapwing.—ScotLtanp: Aberdeent ; Argyll (Isles of Islay, Colonsay, Coll, and Tiree) ; 
Dumbartont ; Dumfriest ; Elgin; Kirkcudbrightt ; Orkney ; Wigtownf. 
Dotterel ENGLAND: Cumberland; Durham; Westmoreland. Waters: Brecon. 
ScoTLAND: Dumbarton; Orkney. 
The eggs of all species are protected in the breeding areas in the following counties :— 
ENGLAND : Northumberland (Holy Island); York (East Riding)—Cambridge ; Chester ; 
Norfolk ; East Suffolk—Devon ; Essex; Kent; Isle of Wight. ScorTLanp: Orkney (whole 
county). 
Any owner, occupier, or other person taking or destroying eggs of specified Plovers in 
above-named places is liable to a penalty of f 1 for each egg. 
Wild Birds Protection Act, 1896.—In addition to any penalty under the Act, 1880, 
the Court may now order any trap, net, snare, etc., used by the offender to be forfeited. 
VII. Remarks. 
Ornithologists have some difficulty in drawing a hard and fast line of demarcation between 
Plovers and some of their allies, and the respective degree of affinity is not fully determined. 
The list given here are birds which are either generally or occasionally recognized under the 
name of > Plover.” 
The Plover or Lapwing is also known by the names “ Peewit, Puit, Peesweep, Wype, 
Teuchit, and Hornpie.” Plovers can hardly be called migratory, as many remain throughout 
the winter, especially in the absence of frost and snow ; the majority, however, in hard weather, 
go south to North Africa, whereas others remain by the estuaries of rivers in the British Isles. 
In February and March, numbers come from abroad, pair, and spread themselves over 
nearly the whole country. ‘Their note is conveyed by the word “ peewit ” or ‘ peaswit,” from 
whence is derived two of the names by which they are popularly known. 
Restless, watchful, and shy, these birds rarely approach either trees or houses, and even 
when roosting in the day, they keep a sentinel on the alert to warn the flock if any danger 
approaches. ‘The designing ways by which they seek to decoy an intruder from their young 
are remarkable, the male being most clamorous, the female running some way from her nest or 
brood before venturing to excite attention by simulating lameness or an inability to fly. They 
run swiftly with their heads poked downwards, stopping suddenly at intervals, and in their 
* It is expected that other counties will before long obtain similar orders of protection under the Act 
of 1894. 
+ From 15th April in each year. 
