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LlMICOLtf. 



CHARADRIIDJE. 



CHARADRIIDtf. 



(Gmelin*). 

 THE LITTLE KINGED PLOVER. 



Charadrius minor. 



OF this rare visitant to Britain, the late Mr. Gould wrote 

 in the 'Birds of Europe,' ''We are indebted to our friend 

 Mr. Henry Doubleday, of Epping, for the loan of an example 

 of this elegant little Plover, which he informs us was taken 

 at Shoreham, in Sussex;" and it would appear that this 

 specimen was correctly identified. As regards the late 

 Mr. Lubbock's statement in his Fauna of Norfolk, 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;" 

 Mr. Stevenson writes that only one of these is now in 

 existence, and the evidence is too vague to justify its 

 claim to be considered a Norfolk bird. 



* Ckaradrius curonicus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 684 (1788). So-called 

 because it inhabits Curonia (Courland). 



