KENTISH PLOVER. 99 



from the various gunners both on the coast and broads ; 

 and amongst the different kinds sent up in May were " a 

 good sprinkling of Kentish plovers." In Mr. Spalding's 

 collection at Westleton, is a fine adult male, purchased 

 by him at Yarmouth, some five and twenty years ago ; 

 and Mr. Newcome, of Feltwell, possesses one from 

 Yarmouth and another from Lowestoft, the neighbour- 

 ing seaport on the Suffolk coast. In the " Zoologist" 

 for 1843 (p. 181) Mr. W. R. Fisher makes the following 

 remarks on a male of this species brought to him on 

 the 17th of April: "It was killed on a small lump of 

 stones and shingle, which is, I believe, the only spot 

 on Breydon left uncovered, except by very high tides. 

 I mention this circumstance as corroborative of the 

 attachment which this bird is said to show to stony 

 ground, in preference to sand or mud." In the same 

 journal also for 1849 (p. 2499), Mr. Gurney has recorded 

 the occurrence of one or two Kentish plover at Yarmouth 

 during the month of June. Two adult birds from 

 Yarmouth, in the Dennis collection, at Bury, were 

 obtained, no doubt, within the last fifteen years ; and in 

 my own notes since 1850 I find the following entries : 



1852. First week in May, one on Breydon. 



1855. May 8th, one on Burgh-flats, near Yarmouth. 



1859. May 6th, one on Breydon. 



1861. April 24th, one on Burgh-flats, in the collec- 

 tion of the Rev. C. J. Lucas. 

 A pair, also killed on Breydon the same spring, 

 are in the possession of Mr. Overend of 

 Yarmouth. 

 September 1st, one at Sherringham. 



1865. April, one shot on Yarmouth beach, in the col- 

 lection of Mr. E. S. Preston, of Yarmouth. 



1867. April, one at Lynn. 



These, of course, represent a portion only of the 

 specimens actually procured in Norfolk during that 

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