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during the entire year. Their numbers increase 

 in the spring, although not so palpably as those of 

 the dunlins and other Scolopacidce. 



KENTISH PLOVER, Charadrius Cantianus. This 

 bird strongly resembles the last, but its body is 

 smaller, and its legs much longer. The plumage 

 is also of a lighter colour. Several arrive for the 

 breeding-season on Rye Marsh, and on the shores 

 of Pevensey Bay. Their eggs and young are fre- 

 quently found on the coasts of East Sussex, but 

 they migrate southwards in the winter. They do 

 not congregate with their congeners, the ringed 

 plovers, but are generally observed either alone or 

 in pairs. I have never been able to discover it 

 westward of Brighton, but Mr. Gould says that it 

 has been killed at Selsey, near Pagham. In the 

 museum of the Mechanics' Institute at Hastings 

 are several specimens, adult and immature, which 

 have been procured in that neighbourhood. 



LITTLE RINGED PLOVER, Charadrius minor. 

 Has been obtained on two or three occasions 

 in Sussex. The specimen from which Mr. Gould 

 took his description was killed at Shoreham, and 

 there is another in Mr. W. Borrer's collection, 

 which was shot in the same neighbourhood during 

 the month of May. 



GREY PLOVER, Squatarola cinerea. A winter 

 visitor of by no means ordinary occurrence, except 



