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Yorkshire. Montagu tells us that "these birds were formerly found 

 even as. far north as Scotland," where, however, they were probably only 

 accidental visitors. 



Even at the date of Montagu's ' Supplement' (1813) the Bustard had 

 nearly disappeared from the downs of Wiltshire. It seems to have 

 lingered to a considerably later date in Suffolk and Norfolk, where some 

 nests were found in 1832 and 1833 (Loudon's ' Mag. Nat. Hist.' vol. vi. 

 p. 150; vol. vii. p. 458; and vol. ix. p. 528). In Yorkshire the last 

 egg was taken in 1816, and is now preserved in the museum at 

 Scarborough. 



Obs. An egg, which can be hardly anything else than that of the 

 Little Bustard (Of is tetrax, Linn.), was obtained by the late Mr. Wolley 

 .at Thurso, in 1848 ; and as a female Little Bustard was killed about the 

 same date in that neighbourhood, the occurrence seems worth mentioning 

 here (y. Wolley in MS. penes A. Newton]. 



CEDICNEMUS CREPITANS (Temm.). Stone-Curlew. 



Provinces II.-V. VIII. X. 



Subprovinces 4-12, 14, 19, 20, 22, 23. 



Lat. 50-55. " Germanic" type. Not in Ireland. 



Breeds in Dorset, Hants, Sussex, Kent, Herts, Oxford, Bucks (per- 

 haps extinct), Suffolk, Norfolk, Cambridge, Worcester (Blyth], Lincoln, 

 Rutland, Nottingham, and in both divisions of Yorkshire ; but is described 

 as rapidly decreasing in most of its localities. 



I have no authority. for its breeding in Devon, Essex, or Lanca- 

 shire. 



CHARADRIUS PLUVIALIS (Linn.}. Golden Plover. 



Provinces I. VI. VII. ? VIII. X.-XVIII. 



Subprovinces 2, 3, 17, 18 ?, 20, 22-38. 



Lat. 50-61. " Scottish" type, or northern. 



Far more abundant in the north, and especially in Scotland, but breeds 

 in small numbers in Devon and Somerset. In Pembroke (Mr. Tracy], 

 and doubtless in North Wales, though I have no authority for Sub- 

 province 18. Mr. Eyton writes that the Golden Plover is said to breed 

 in the mountains above Chirk Castle; and Mr. O. Salvin has found 

 the nest in Derbyshire. The bird becomes more numerous on the moors 

 from Yorkshire northwards, and is especially well known on all the 

 Highland mountains. 



CHARADRIUS MORINELLUS (Linn.}. Dotterel. 



Provinces [VIII.?] X.-XII. XV. XVII. 



Subprovinces (20?), 23-25, 30, 31, 34, 35. 



Lat. 54-59. " Highland" type. Perhaps in Ireland. 



With respect to Derbyshire, Sir John Crewe informs me that he has 



