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a female by dissection, killed in Herm on the 26th 

 of April, 1877. Another skin I have is that of a 

 young bird of the year, killed in the autumn, I 

 should think early in the autumn August or 

 September; and the Kev. A. Morre's, who kindly gave 

 me this last one, has also a skin of one killed at the 

 same time ; both of these were Guernsey killed. 



The Dotterel is included in Professor Ansted's 

 list, and by him marked as having occurred in 

 Guernsey and Sark. I should think Alderney a 

 more likely place for the bird to have occurred than 

 Sark, but I have not been able to gain any information 

 about its occurrence there ; neither the carpenter 

 bird-stuffer nor his sporting friend had a skin or 

 any part of the bird. There is no specimen now in 

 the Museum. 



106. EING DOTTEREL. ^Egialitis hiaticula, Lin- 

 naeus. French, " Grand pluvier a collier," " Pluvier 

 a collier." The Eing Dotterel is very common in 

 all the Islands in places suited to it. Some remain 

 throughout the summer, and a few of these, but 

 certainly very few, may breed in the Islands ; the 

 great majority, however, of those that frequent the 

 coast in the winter are migrants, arriving in the 

 autumn and departing again in the spring. Some, 

 however, appear to arrive very early, and cannot 

 have bred very far off, perhaps on the neighbouring 

 coast of France or Dorset. I have the following note 



