78 THE BIRDS OF DORSET. 



Monkton Down, near Blandford, as a haunt of this 

 species. In the autumn of 1 886 as many as thirteen 

 were seen together in a turnip-field at Whitchurcli. 

 A specimen in the collection of Mr. W. Penney was 

 shot on the Sandbanks in Poole Harbour on the loth 

 December 1873. The occurrence of this bird here 

 in winter recalls the statement of Eodd (" Birds of 

 Cornwall," p. 83), to the effect that it is known in 

 Cornwall only as a winter visitant, that county being 

 regarded as the northern boundary of the area occu- 

 pied by this species in its winter quarters. The 

 Rev. Murray A. Mathew testifies to its occasional 

 occurrence in winter in Devonshire, and Mr. A. G. 

 More says the same of the Isle of Wight (Venables' 

 " Guide to the Isle of Wight," p. 431). 



FAM. GLAREOLID.E. 



COLLARED PRATINCOLE. Glareola pratincola, (L.) 



Yarrell, iii. p. 231 ; Harting, p. 133; Dresser, vii. p. 411 ; See- 

 bohm, iii. p. 69 ; Ibis List, p. 155. 



The Collared Pratincole is a rare summer visitant. 

 Mr. Harting, in his " Handbook of British Birds," * 

 enumerates twenty instances of its occurrence in the 

 British Islands. One in the Bryanston collection 

 was shot on the banks of the Stour, during a severe 

 winter when the river was frozen over ; a second 

 was seen on the eastern side of the county in the 

 1 See also J. H. Guruey, juii., Zoologist, 1869, p. 1612. 



