BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 127 



the sand. In no instance in which I saw the eggs 

 was there the slightest attempt at a nest; but 

 Colonel 1'E strange told me that in one instance, in 

 which he had found some eggs a day or two before 

 I got to Guernsey, quite the end of May, he found 

 there was a slight attempt at a nest, a few bents of 

 the rough herbage which grew in the sand just 

 above high-water mark having been collected and 

 the nest lined with them. I have not found any 

 eggs in Alderney, but I have no doubt they breed 

 in some of the sandy bays to the north of the 

 Island occasionally, if not always, as I have seen 

 them there in the breeding-season, both in 1876 and 

 in 1866. This summer (1878) I was so short a 

 time in that Island that I had not time to search 

 the most likely places, but Captain Hubbach wrote 

 me " I do not think the Kentish Plover remained 

 here to breed this year, although I saw some about 

 in April." 



Professor Ansted includes the Kentish Plover in 

 his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey. 

 There is one specimen, a male, in the Museum. 



108. TURNSTONE. Strepsilas interpres, Linnaeus. 

 French, " Tourne pierre," " Tourne pierre a collier." 

 The cosmopolitan Turnstone is resident in the 

 Channel Islands ; throughout the year its numbers, 

 however, are much increased in the autumn by 

 migrants, many of which remain throughout the 



