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taking short flights struck the person who shot it (who, however, was 

 no ornithologist) as something new, and the beak again being different 

 from the Plovers, for which he at first mistook it, and which caused 

 him to keep it." Arthur Strickland informs me that another specimen 

 of this rare bird was killed in 1825, by the keeper of the Earl of Hare- 

 wood, and another in 1828 by the keeper of the Hon. Chas. Stourton 

 of Holme [on Spalding Moor], near Market Weighton. 



It will be observed that Allis, on the authority of his 

 friend and correspondent, Arthur Strickland, mentioned the 

 occurrence of two specimens of the Courser, in addition 

 to that first reported. One in 1825, killed by the Earl of 

 Harewood's keeper (see also Gould, " Birds of Great Britain "); 

 and another in 1828, shot by the keeper of the Hon. Chas. 

 Stourton, at Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, near Market Weighton. 

 The foregoing furnishes all the information available with 

 regard to the visits of the species to the county. There is 

 no record of its appearance since the year when Allis wrote. 



DOTTEREL. 

 Eudromias morinellus (Z.). 



Bird of passage in spring and autumn ; very local and not common. 

 Most frequent in spring on the coast, where it arrives in May, remaining 

 for two or three weeks ; also observed on the high lands at the same 

 period ; less abundant in autumn. 



The earliest mention of the Dotterel in Britain is contained 

 in the Percy's " Northumberland Household Book," begun 

 in 1512, at the Castles of " Wressill and Lekinfield," where 

 this entry occurs : " Dottrells to be bought for my Lorde 

 when they are in Season and to be at jd. a pece." 



Thomas Allis, in 1844, wrote : 



Charadrius morinellus. The Dotterel Rare near Sheffield ; occa- 

 sionally met with on the moorsjabout Halifax in spring and early summer. 

 Wm. Eddison says it occasionally comes to breed on the Marsden and 

 Slaithwaite Moors ; very rare near Leeds ; Arthur Strickland says 

 "The Wolds near here [Bridlington] seem to be the ancient resort of 

 this species previous to their retiring to the mountains in the west to 



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