118 EGIALITIS HIATICOLA. 
AEGIALITIS HIATICOLA (Linneus). 
RING-PLOVER. 
§ 3481. Zen.—Shores of the Wash, not later than 1844. 
I got these from Harvey, of Baitsbight, who had a great many 
brought up by barges from Lynn. ‘The varieties in colour are from 
a dingy yellow to a clear cream. They also differ, considerably in 
marking, one having all the spots thickly clustered and confluent at 
the larger end, and another with ouly a few large spots scattered over 
its surface, while some are covered with short hair-like streaks. 
§ 3482. One.—North of Scotland. From Mr.William Dunbar, 
1850. 
§ 3483. Four.—Orkney, 1851. From Mr. George Harvey, of 
Stromness. 
§ 3484. Mowr.—Thetford Warren!, Suffolk, 1852. From 
Messrs..A. & E. Newton. 
§ 3485. Hour.—Wangford Warren, Suffolk, May, 1854. From 
Messrs. A. & E. Newton. 
A complete nest, and a very curious variety of the Ringed Plover, 
the only bird in that neighbourhood whici could lay such eggs. 
1 [The fact of this species breeding on warrens fay inland was first recorded by 
‘Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear in their ‘Catalogue of the Norfolk and Suffolk 
Birds’ (Trans. Linn. Soc. xv. p. 87) on Mr, Scales’s information (cf § 3516). 
Mr. Salmon in 1834 seems to have been the first to publish (Mag. Nat. Hist. vii. 
p: 574) its local name of “ Stonehatch,” bestowed from the bird’s paving its nest, 
a hollow in the turf, with small flints—a singular instance of the retention of a 
habit, at first presumably adopted for the sake of protection, but in changed 
circumstances leading to the easy discovery of the nest, which is conspicuous by 
contrast with the surrounding green grass,—Eb. | 
