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summer this is perfectly correct, but the frequency of its 
occurrence inland, as indicated by the many notes in British 
Birds, rather suggests an autumn immigration which at 
times, at any rate, partakes of a cross-country nature. 
T. A. CowaRD. 
[The bird from Sicily referred to above evidently belonged 
to the Mediterranean race P. graculus desmaresti (Peyr.). 
The under-parts of the young birds of this race always have 
the breast and under-surface white. I have seen scores of 
them in this plumage in May. Dresser (Vol. VI.) did not 
distinguish the two races.—F. C. R. JouRDAIN.] 
GOLDEN PLOVER PERCHING ON A WALL. 
Ir is not a very uncommon sight to see many species of 
waders perching on walls, posts, etc., in their breeding 
haunts; particularly is this the case with the Common 
Sandpiper, which can perch with great facility. During 
August, 1917, as one of my sons and I were leaving Barden 
Moor, in Wharfedale, a pair of Golden Plovers (Charadrius 
apricarius) followed us for a considerable distance, alighting 
on a stone wall from time to time until we had nearly arrived 
at the highway leading to Skipton. Both the Curlew and 
Dunlin in their breeding-haunts also occasionally perch 
on walls. K. P. BUTTERFIELD. 
“TWIN” NESTS OF REDSHANK. 
REFERRING to Mr. T. Smith’s note (antea, p. 46) on twin 
nests of the Lapwing, it may be worth recording that I 
have found similar “twin” nests of the Redshank (Tinga 
totanus). K. P. BUTTERFIELD. 
REEVE IN CORNWALL IN MARCH. 
On March 21st, 1917, a friend, who is interested in birds, 
shot for the purpose of identification a Reeve (Machetes 
pugnax) at a marshy pool near the Great Western Goods 
Station at Penzance. He sent the bird to me in the flesh 
and it is now in my collection. 
The Ruff appears to be an occasional visitor to Cornwall 
during the autumnal migration, but its occurrence in winter 
or spring is very exceptional. Couch (Cornish Fauna, Part I., 
1838, p. 23) records the killing of a Reeve near Truro in 
March, 1829, and Rodd (Birds of Cornwall, 1880, p. 249) 
states that two specimens of the Reeve were procured in 
the Land’s End district on the property of John Symons, Esq., 
of Mayon House, at the end of April, 1868. 
L. A. Curtis EDWarRbs. 
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