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quents the muddy and sandy beaches, which it 

 searches for worms, insects, and small marine 

 animals. It breeds in the northern counties, plac- 

 ing a few blades of grass in a slight hollow, in 

 which it lays four light greenish yellow eggs, 

 blotched and dotted with brown and pale purple. 



PLOVEE, KENTISH. 



CIIARADIIUIS CANTIANUS, Bew. 



The Kentish Plover was so named by Latham, 

 who first described it from specimens shot near 

 Sandwich, in Kent. It is said to be abundant in 

 the northern parts of Germany, in France, on the 

 shores of Holland, and along the coasts of the 

 Mediterranean. It has been found during spring 

 and summer along the sandy coasts of several of the 

 southern and eastern counties of England, but not 

 farther north than Norfolk. It is very extensively 

 distributed on the Continent, and is found in India 

 and its islands. Its habits are similar to those of 

 the Einged Plover. The eggs, four in number, 

 are of a yellowish stone colour, spotted and 

 streaked with black. 



