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KENTISH DOTTEREL. 

 f .CaselSl. 



The true home of this handsome little Plover 

 in the British Islands is the flat line of coast that 

 lies between Rye Harbour and Dungeness Point. 

 Here it is found in numbers during the spring and 

 summer months, usually departing about the begin- 

 ning or middle of September. It may be met with 

 at a few other spots along the south coast, and 

 also occasionally in Norfolk and Suffolk, but its 

 appearance in those localities is very uncertain. 



The specimens in the case were shot on the 

 sands between Rye and Lydd on the shores of the 

 English Channel early in May, 1866. 



COMMON BUNTING. 

 Case 182. 



The Common Bunting is of frequent occur- 

 rence in the British Islands, being found, perhaps, 

 more abundant in Sussex than in any other county. 



The specimens in the case were shot in the 

 neighbourhood of Brighton in May, 1872. 



I have never seen such large numbers of the Common 

 Bunting, either in Sussex or elsewhere as' on the Machars 

 and other cultivated lands on the western side of the Outer 

 Hebrides, where they appear to nest in very great numbers. 

 Ed. 



STARLING. (IMMATURE). 

 Case 183. 



The young are here shown in their nestling 

 plumage, one or two of the specimens exhibiting a 

 few feathers of their first moult. 



They were obtained at Portslade near Brighton 

 in the summer of 1872. 



