Birds. 7485 



Stone Curlf.w, (EiUcnemus crepitans. 



Situation. On the ground, especially in ibe south-eastern counties 

 of England. 



Materials. Sometimes a very few bents and small straws. 



Eggs, 2, 3. Testaceous-brown, blotched, spotted and streaked with 

 lead-colour and umber-brown : pairs of eggs have often been found 

 in the stony fallows at Aperfield, near Cudham, in Kent. 



Golden Plover, Charadrius pluvialis. 



Situation. On mountain wilds and bogs in Scotland, the North of 

 England, and Ireland. 



Materials. Scarcely any, a few fragments of heather and dried 

 grasses carelessly scraped together. 



Eggs, 4. Cream-coloured, with large blotches of umber-brown of 

 various shapes and sizes. The young bird is covered with down 

 of two colours : it runs as soon as hatched. 



DoTTERELL, Cliaradvius morinellus. 



Situation. Summits of mountains in the North of England, *' par- 

 ticularly those that are densely covered with the woolly fringe-moss 

 {Trichostomum lanuginosum) ,\\\nc\\ indeed grows more or less profusely 

 on nearly all the most elevated parts of this alpine district." — Mr. 

 Heysham. The particular hills on which the dolterell feeds are Hel- 

 vellyn, Whiteside, Whatson Dod, Saddleback, Skiddaw, Carrick Fell, 

 Grasmoor, Eobinson, Gold Scalp and Great Gavel, on the Cumber- 

 land ranges ; also Hoy in Orkney, and several localities in the Orkney 

 Islands. 



Materials. None : " they lay their eggs in a small cavity on dry 

 ground covered with vegetation, and generally near a moderate-sized 

 stone or fragment of rock." — Mr. Heysham. 



Eggs, 3. Dark cream-colour or olive-brown, thickly blotched with 

 dark brown or black. 



Ringed Plover, Charadrius hiaticula. 



Situation. On the sea-coast, among gravel or on sand near high- 

 water mark. " Sometimes also on the links or sand-hills that line the 

 coast, or even in a corn field, if immediately adjoining the shore." — 

 Mr. Selby. 



Materials. Dried grasses, and a very small quantity of them. 

 " Often, perhaps generally, lined, or more properly speaking paved, 

 with small white stones, looking something like tessellated pavement ; 

 which not unfrequently remains perfect for a year or two after the 

 young birds have left." — Mr. Bond. 



Eggs, 4. Pale stone-colour, marked all over with small black and 



