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habitually resorts to our shores or not, it may now reason- 

 ably claim a place in the Fauna of our Island, and we are 

 glad of the opportunity of introducing it to the notice of 

 British Ornithologists, and still more so that the only 

 British- killed specimen should have fallen into the hands of 

 an individual so zealous in the collection of our native birds 

 as the gentleman above mentioned." 



The Rev. Richard Lubbock, in his recently published 

 Fauna of Norfolk, says, that " two specimens of this bird 

 in the Norwich Museum, were believed by Mr. Denny, the 

 curator, to have been killed in the county ; but the fact 

 was not noted down at the time."" 



On the Continent it is by no means a scarce bird. M. 

 Nilsson says that both this species and the Kentish Plover 

 occasionally visit Sweden in summer. M. Temminck says 

 it is found in Germany, and the central portions of Europe ; 

 it inhabits Provence, Italy, and some of the islands of the 

 Mediterranean ; the Zoological Society have received 

 specimens sent by Messrs. Dickson and Ross from Erze- 

 room, where it appears to be numerous about the middle of 

 June on the sandy and pebbly banks of the Aras at Hassen 

 Kaleh, eighteen miles east of Erzeroom. B. Hodgson, 

 Esq., includes it in the birds of Nepal, Mr. Blyth has 

 obtained it at Calcutta ; and M. Temminck includes it 

 among the Birds of Japan. 



This species bears considerable resemblance to the 

 Ringed Plover, Ch. Jiiaticula, and is likely to be occa- 

 sionally overlooked ; it is, however, to be distinguished 

 readily, on examination, by its smaller size ; its much 

 more slender form, being one fourth lighter in weight ; its 

 black beak, its more slender and lighter-coloured legs, by 

 the broad white shaft of the first quill-feather only of each 

 wing ; and by the dusky spot which is present at all ages 



