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shores of Holland. Mr. William Borrcr, Jun. of Henfield, 

 in a series of Ornithological notes, with which he has very 

 kindly supplied me, mentions having seen three of these 

 birds at St. Owen's Bay in the Island of Jersey, one of which 

 he obtained. M. Vieillot says it is found in France on the 

 shores of Picardy ; it is found also in Provence, in Italy, and 

 along the shores of the Mediterranean generally. Mr. Selby 

 says it inhabits Egypt, Nubia, and Tartary, and M. 

 Menetrics, the Russian Naturalist, includes it among the 

 birds found at the base of the Caucasian range. M. Tem- 

 minck says it is found in India, and in the Indian Archipe- 

 lago, but that he had not received it from Japan. Lastly, I 

 may mention that Dr. Horsfield includes it in his Catalogue 

 of the Birds of Java. 



The habits and food of this little Plover so closely resem.- 

 ble those of the species last described, that it is unnecessary 

 to occupy space with the recital. The female makes no nest, 

 but lays her four eggs in a small hollow in the sand, or 

 amongst fine shingle and broken shells. The egg is correctly 

 figured by Mr. Hewitson in his well-known work on the eggs 

 of British Birds. I possess two eggs of this species, given 

 me by Dr. Pitman, obtained wdtli others of the same bird from 

 the Sussex coast : these are one inch three lines in length, by 

 eleven lines in breadth, of a yellowish stone colour, spotted 

 and streaked with black. 



When at Hastings in 1833, I learned from collectors that 

 dogs were trained to hunt for nests and eggs over the exten- 

 sive tracts of breeding-ground on the shores of Kent and 

 Sussex. On finding a nest of eggs, which they did by scent, 

 the parent birds in some instances being upon the nest, the 

 dog stopped till the master came up to examine the ground, 

 and this done, the dog went off again, upon signal, pointer- 

 like, to hunt as before. 



The adult male in summer has the beak wholly black ; 



