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the northern parts of Germany, and on the shores of Hol- 

 land. Mr. William Borrer, jun., of Henfield, in a series of 

 Ornithological notes, with which he has very kindly sup- 

 plied me, mentions having seen three of these birds at St. 

 Owen's Bay in the Island of Jersey, one of which he 

 obtained. M. Vieillot says it is found in France on the 

 shores of Picardy ; it is found also in Provence, in Italy, 

 and along the shores of the Mediterranean generally. Mr. 

 Selby says it inhabits Egypt, Nubia, and Tartary, and M. 

 Menetries, the Russian Naturalist, includes it among the 

 birds found at the base of the Caucasian range. Mr. Blyth 

 has obtained it in the vicinity of Calcutta. M. Temminck 

 says it is found in the Indian Archipelago, but that he had 

 not received it from Japan. Dr. Horsfield includes it in 

 his Catalogue of the Birds of Java. 



The habits and food of this little Plover resemble those 

 of the species last described. The female makes no nest, 

 but lays her four eggs in a small hollow in the sand, or 

 amongst fine shingle and broken shells. The egg is 

 correctly figured by Mr. Hewitson in his well-known work 

 on the eggs of British Birds. I possess two eggs of this 

 species, given me by Dr. Pitman, obtained with others of 

 the same bird from the Sussex coast : these are one inch 

 three lines in length, by eleven lines in breadth, of a 

 yellowish stone colour, spotted and streaked with black. 



When at Hastings in 1833, I learned from collectors 

 that dogs were trained to hunt for nests and eggs over the 

 extensive tracts of breeding-ground on the shores of Kent 

 and Sussex. On finding a nest of eggs, which they did by 

 scent, the parent birds in some instances being upon the 

 nest, the dog stopped till the master came up to examine 

 the ground, and this done, the dog went off again, upon 

 signal, pointer-like, to hunt as before. 



