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near their nests, the dotterel goes off to a little distance and sits quite mute ; 
one of the old birds belonging to the last nest I found sat motionless on a stone 
until I approached within a few yards of it: the parent of the young bird that 
I found was different ; it flew round me at a great height, uttering at short 
intervals a plaintive note, something like the call-note of the common linnet.” 
Mr. Francis Nicholson was so good as to inform me by letter (14 June, 1879) 
that Mr. Heysham never found a Dotterel’s nest himself, but that all the eggs 
he obtained were found by this Mr. Cooper. It was Mr. Heysham’s father, 
Dr. John Heysham, who first saw eggs of this bird which had been taken in 
the lake-district, on Skiddaw, in 1784, though the fact seems not to have been 
published till 1829 (Philos. Mag. N. Ser. vi. p. 280; reprinted Mag. Nat. Hist. 
iii. p. 174). Mr. Yarrell, on behalf of Mr. T. C. Heysham, exhibited one of the 
eggs and some of the birds obtained by him in 1835 at a meeting of the 
Zoological Society, 12th January, 1836 (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1836, p. 1). 
Mr. Nicholson contributed some excellent notes on the species to Messrs. H. A. 
Macpherson and Duckworth’s ‘ Birds of Cumberland’ (pp. 134-186), published 
in 1886, and a still fuller account of the Dotterel as a native of the district is 
given by Mr. Macpherson in his ‘ Vertebrate Fauna of Lakeland’ (pp. 348-358), 
published in 1892.] 
(§ 8431. One.—Skiddaw, 21 June, 1851. From Mr. Powys, 
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Mr. Powys, afterwards Lord Lilford, wrote to me 5 November, 1855, that 
this was “ taken by a friend,” but the friend’s name I never learnt. | 
$432. Two.—Cumberland, 1851-5. From Mr. Salvin, 
1856. 
Mr. Salvin told me that he had three from a Mr. Cooper of Keswick, who 
cot them from the shepherds who had taken them on the mountains. I am 
not sure that this was the Mr. James Cooper above named, for he, I think, was, 
in 1856;living at Warrington, to the museum of which town he is said to have 
been reappointed Curator in 1855. ] 
3433. Three —East Finmark, 1853. From Paster Sommer- 
felt, 1855. 
Given to me at Nyborg, being, the Pastor said, the complete contents of a 
nest taken between Tana and Lebesby.] 
3434. Three.—Lapland, 5 June, 1860. 
