GRALLATORES. 153 



Common Hinged Little Ringed 



Plover. Plover. 



Total length of keel . 1 inch 6 lines . 1 inch 4 lines. 

 Length of keel from 



base of corracoids . 1 5 1 3 



Greatest depth of keel . 7^- lines ... . 5 lines. 



Length of corracoid . 7 . . 6 ,, 



Length of clavicle .10 . .'' . 8 



Length of scapular . 1 inch 1 line .11 

 Greatest width of furcal 



bone . . .4 lines . . 3 



The only note which I have heard uttered by the 

 Little Einged Plover is, 



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Since writing the above, I have been informed by 

 Mr. Mitford, of Hampstead, that he shot a little 

 Kinged Plover at the same piece of water on the 

 20th August, of the same year. This specimen, 

 which was also immature, he intended to have pre- 

 served, but being called from home before he had 

 time to skin it, it was unfortunately cooked and 

 eaten. 



He remarked a curious fact with regard to it, 

 which was that, a few minutes after it had been 

 shot, it was as stiff as if it had been dead for some 

 hours, from which he inferred that the bird nad only 

 just arrived from passage, as he had remarked the 



