134 RARE VISITANTS. 



LITTLE RINGED PLOVEE. JEgialitis curonicus 

 (Gmelin)*. 



Hab. Europe ; Asia ; North Africa. 



One, Shoreham, Sussex (Doubleday) : Gould, Birds of Europe. 

 Two, Norwich Museum, said to have been killed in Norfolk 



(Lubbock, ' Fauna of Norfolk/ p. 73) ; one only exists at 



present, and its history is more than doubtful : cf. Steven- 

 son, Birds of Norfolk, vol. ii. p. 97. 

 One, Whixley, Yorkshire, 30th July, 1850 : Garth, Zoologist, 



1850, p. 2953. 

 One, Shoreham, Sussex, Sept. 1851 : Ellman, Zoologist, 1851, 



p. 3279. 



One near Brighton : Cavafy, Naturalist, 1854, p. 234. 

 Several between Cuckmere Haven and Seaford, Sussex, Feb. 



1855 : Grantham, Zoologist, 1855, p. 4762. 

 One out of a flock near Barnstaple, Sept. 1859 : Mathew, 



Zoologist, 1859, p. 6762. 

 One, Christchurch, Hants, " many years ago : " Wise, New 



Forest (1862), p. 315. 



One, Scilly, Oct. 1863 : Rodd, Zoologist, 1863, p. 8848. 

 One, Kingsbury Reservoir, Middlesex, 30th Aug. 1864 : 



Harting, Zoologist, 1864, p. 9283; Birds of Middlesex, 



p. 149. In the author's collection. 

 Three out of a flock of twenty, between Lewes and Newhaven, 



17th March, 1866 : Monk, Zoologist, 1866, p. 229. 



KILLDEER PLOVEE. JEgialitis vociferus (Linnaeus). 



Hab. North and South America. 

 One, Knapp Mill, near Christchurch, Hants, April 1857: 



Sclater, Ibis, 1862, p. 275. 



* Charadrius curonicus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 692 (1788), and 

 Beseke, jfcfo Gmelin, Yog. Kurlands, p. 66 (1792). (?. pliilippinus, 

 Latham, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 745 (1790). C. fluviatilis, Bechstein, 

 Naturg. Yog. Deutschl. p. 422 (1809). C. minor, Meyer & Wolf, 

 Tasehenb. Yog. Deutsehl. ii. p. 324 (1810). 



