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By Professor J. BUCKMAN, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



N the 16th of May of the present year (1884) Mr. 

 Masters, my Bailiff, brought me a pair of birds 

 which he had shot on my farm, thinking that 

 they were the young of the Peewit. I soon 

 however determined that they were specimens 

 of the Dotterel Charadrius. morinellus and know- 

 ing their rarity and that they would not stop in the neighbour- 

 hood, I directed that a sharp look out should be kept for any 

 more, in consequence of which three additional specimens were 

 brought to me in the afternoon. 



As this is only about the second time that this bird has been 

 taken in Dorset, I am anxious to correct an error which some 

 have fallen into namely, that of confounding this bird with the 

 Charadrius hiaticula the ringed plover: Dottrell (sic) of 

 Gould. The following is a description by Mr. Heynsham of a 

 young female ; Forehead, throat, sides of face, cream-yellow, 

 covered with small spots and fine streaks of greyish-brown, 

 crown of the head, occiput and also the feathers on the back, 

 dark brown, all more or less broadly edged with buff orange. 

 Scapulars and wing-coverts olive green, deeply edged with red- 

 dish white ; tail the same, finely margined with white, the centre 

 feathers broadly tipped with reddish white, and the three lateral 

 ones on each side ending in a large irregular whitish spot. 

 Sides of the neck, flanks, and a broad band above each eye, 

 buff orange, the former finely streaked with greyish brown, 

 breast cinereous, slightly tinged with reddish white, and marked 

 on each side with large spots of olive green. Belly, white, 



