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habitually resorts to our shores or not, it may now reason- 

 ably claim a place in the Fauna of our Island, and we are 

 glad of the opportunity of introducing it to the notice of 

 British Ornithologists, and still more so that the first 

 British-killed specimen should have fallen into the hands 

 of an individual so zealous in the collection of our native 

 birds as the gentleman above mentioned." 



The Rev. Richard Lubbock, in his Fauna of Norfolk, 

 says, that " two specimens of this bird in the Norwich 

 Museum were believed by Mr. Denny, the curator, to have 

 been killed in the county ; but the fact was not noted down 

 at the time." 



This species has now been obtained at Brighton, at Shore- 

 ham, and in Yorkshire. 



On the Continent it is by no means a scarce bird. M. 

 Nilsson says that both this species and the Kentish Plover 

 occasionally visit Sweden in summer. M. Temminck says 

 it is found in Germany and the central portions of Europe ; 

 it inhabits Provence, Italy, and some of the islands of the 

 Mediterranean ; the Zoological Society have received spe- 

 cimens sent by Messrs. Dickson and Ross from Erzeroum, 

 where it appears to be numerous about the middle of June 

 on the sandy and pebbly banks of the Aras at Hassen 

 Kaleh, eighteen miles east of Erzeroum. B. Hodgson, 

 Esq. includes it in the birds of Nepal ; Mr. Blyth has 

 obtained it at Calcutta ; and M. Temminck includes it 

 among the Birds of Japan. 



This species bears considerable resemblance to the 

 Ringed Plover, Ch. hiaticula, and is likely to be occa- 

 sionally overlooked ; it is, however, to be distinguished 

 readily, on examination, by its smaller size ; its much 

 more slender form, being one-fourth lighter in weight ; its 

 black beak ; its more slender and lighter-coloured legs ; by 

 the broad white shaft of the first quill -feather only of each 



