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rare, that specimens will be procured with considerable dif- 

 ficulty. I have subjoined the names of some of the principal 

 mountains in this county on which Dottrels have been known 

 to breed, and I have also added, as far as practicable, their 

 elevation above the level of the sea, under the idea that 

 this information may prove of some utility to naturalists who 

 may hereafter feel inclined to investigate the manners of this 

 species in the same district. The relative positions of these 

 mountains may be seen at a single glance, on referring to 

 Greenwood's excellent Map of the County of Cumberland. 



Those mountains whose elevations are not given, exceed that 

 of Carrock Fell." 



The Dotterel is said to breed on the Mendip Hills in 

 Somersetshire, besides the various mountains of the lake 

 counties, as stated by T. C. Heysham, Esq. and formerly 

 also by his father, Dr. Heysham, in his Catalogue of Cum- 

 berland Animals. There is no doubt, also, that they breed 

 on some of the mountains in Scotland. Braemar, in Aber- 

 deenshire, has been named. Colonel Thornton, in his Sport- 

 ing Tour, mentions having seen several pairs in Scotland in 

 the middle of August ; and Montagu saw them in pairs in 

 that country sufficiently late in spring to warrant the conjec- 

 ture that they bred there. An egg in my own collection was 

 obtained on the Grampian Hills ; this example is of a yellow- 

 ish olive colour, blotched and spotted with dark brownish 

 black : one inch seven lines and a half in length, by one inch 

 two lines and a half in breadth. 



M. Temminck savs the Dotterel is rare in Holland ; that 



