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quents the muddy and sandy beaches, which it 
searches for worms, insects, and small marine 
animals. It breeds in the northern counties, plac- 
ing a few blades of grass in a slight hollow, in 
which it lays four lght greenish yellow eggs, 
blotched and dotted with brown and pale purple. 
PLOVER, KENTISH. 
CuaRrapnruis CantTranus, Bew. 
The Kentish Plover was so named by Latham, 
who first described it from specimens shot near 
Sandwich, in Kent. Itis said to be abundant in 
the northern parts of Germany, in France, on the 
shores of Holland, and along the coasts of the 
Mediterranean. It has been found during spring 
and summer along the sandy coasts of several of the 
southern and eastern counties of England, but not 
farther north than Norfolk. It is very extensively 
distributed on the Continent, and is found in India 
and its islands. Its habits are similar to those of 
the Ringed Plover. The eggs, four in number, 
are of a yellowish stone colour, spotted and 
streaked with black. 
