8o THE BIRDS OF DORSET. 



DOTTEREL. Eudromias morinellus, (L.) 



Yarrell, iii. p. 246 ; Harting, p. 43 ; Dresser, vii. p. 507 ; Ibis 

 List, p. 1 60; Charadrius morinellus, Seebohm, iii. p. 30; 

 Pulteney's List, p. 16; Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist, and Antiq. 

 Field Club, vol. vi. p. 29. 



The Dotterel is a spring and autumn visitant, and 

 is partial to dry cultivated soils. Dorsetshire is not 

 directly in its line of migration, and consequently 

 the bird rarely visits us. One was shot near Pim- 

 perne, and another on Pimperne Down (Pulteney). 

 Three were shot on Waterson Ridge by the late Mr. 

 James Harding in the early spring of 1843, during 

 some veiy cold weather ; one was shot on the western 

 side of Milborne St. Andrew's farm, in a turnip- 



