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BRITISH BIRDS. 



April 21st, and the third on the 22nd, these I did not 

 see until after they had been mounted. 



These are the first of this common American species 

 that have been killed in Kent, and bring up the British- 



Killdeer Plover, shot near Lydd, Kent, on April 21st, 1908. 



taken examples to six. One is now in the collection 

 of Mr. J. B. Nichols, and a second in that of Mr. C. J. ' 

 Carroll. 



N. F. TlCEHURST. 



[We are much indebted to Mr. J. B. Nichols for the 

 loan of his specimen, and for the permission to reproduce 

 the accompanying photograph of it. — Eds.] 



SOLITARY SANDPIPER IN KENT. 



With reference to the Duchess of Bedford's note in 

 the last number of British Birds (p. 136), the Solitary 

 Sandpiper was shot by a visitor at Littlestone, and 

 therefore at no great distance from w^here she saw it on 

 August 15th. Mr. Bristow received it two days later, 

 and kindly brought it to me in the flesh. From its 

 condition it had evidently passed unrecognised, and 

 it looked as though it had been shaken up in a " game " 



