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1 hours together, either sleeping or preening their fea- 

 thers. The greater part of these migratory flocks 

 leave before the winter, generally during the first 

 fortnight in October. Those that remain now resort 

 occasionally to the mud flats ; but their chief haunts 

 and feeding-grounds are those fields where the turnips 

 have been recently fed off, giving the preference to the 

 wettest land. In the spring, early in March, they 

 again visit the district, but not nearly in such large 

 numbers as during the autumn migration. At this 

 season they rarely, except at high water, leave the 

 coast, but feed in company with Dunlins on the muds, 

 finally leaving for the north early in April, and in 

 forward seasons in March. 



148. CHARADRIUS CANTIANUS (Latham). Kentish 

 Plover. 



A male of this rare species was shot on the 25th of 

 May, and a female on the 28th of the same month, in 

 1869, on the Yorkshire coast near Bridlington, by T. 

 Boynton, Esq., of Ulrome Grange. 



149. SQUATAROLA CINEREA (Fleming). Grey Plover. 

 Provincial. Sand-Plover. 



A regular spring and autumn visitant on their 

 passage to and from their northern breeding-stations. 

 In the former season they arrive on the " flats" in con- 

 siderable flocks during the first week in May, leaving 



