The Zoologist — Novembek, 1871. 2851 



There were five eggs in the nest, which was lined with fine laminse or 

 shreds of the bark of fir or larch trees, not dead leaves as mentioned in the 

 letter. — Frederick Bond; October 11, 1871. 



Ringed Plorer breeding lulaud. — Observing some mention made of the 

 breeding of the ringed plover at distances inland, and finding that the fact 

 of its doing so does not seem to be universally known, I may be allowed to 

 mention that there are several locahties in Scotland where it breeds far 

 inland, and at one of these at a considerable elevation above the sea-level. 

 In Norway it breeds at a height of 4000 feet above the sea and from 

 fifty to eighty miles inland. — John A. Harvie Broun; Dunipace House, 

 October 3, 1871. 



Ring Dotterel breeding Inland. — I have just read the ' Zoologist ' for 

 September, and I see you do not seem aware of the fact of the ring dotterel 

 breeding inland. It has bred from time immemorial on sandy wastes and 

 heaths, even in the very centre of Norfolk, arriving at the end of March and 

 leaving again in August. — Robert Mitford ; Haverstock Place, N.W. 



Dotterel at Dnngeness. — On the 7th of September, at Jury Gap, Dunge- 

 ness, I fell in with five dotterel at the edge of a brackish pond, which, as is 

 usual with this species, allowed me to come quite near. They are too fat 

 to walk about much, and are very conspicuous a long way off, looking very 

 black when they settle on shingle. I afterwards saw two smaller " trips." 

 My attendant knew directly what they were, and they are not considered 

 rare at Dnngeness. Mr. Pemberton Bartlett says of them, " Common in 

 Romney Marsh " (Zool. 624). The specimen which I obtained was a young 

 one, very different from the bird in its winter plumage, or as we get it in 

 spring. I have never seen but three Uke it. — J. H. Gurney, jun. 



Spoonbill at the Lizard. — A fine young bird was captured at the Lizard 

 this week, and I have just seen it at Mr. Vingoe's. — Edward Hearle 

 Rodd; October 17, 1871. 



Wood Sandpiper at Branntou Barrows. — I omitted to notice in my last 

 communication that in the same field in which I obtained the pectoral sand- 

 pipers, and on the same day (September 11th), and indeed only a few minutes 

 before they first attracted my attention, I shot a wood sandpiper, a male bird 

 and in mature plumage. An especial degree of interest attaches to this 

 specimen from the fact that the two centre tail-feathers, instead of being 

 barred in the usual way, are of a uniform dusky brown colour, having merely 

 spots of white on the edges, similar to those on the tertiaries, while the other 

 tail-feathers are barred very indistinctly and irregularly.— J/arcifs S. C. 

 Richards; 1, St. Stejihetis Street, Bristol, October 19, 1871. 



The Whitby Wader. — With regard to the wader described in the ' Zoolo- 

 gist' for September (S. S. 2772), I send you an outline sketch of tlie bird, 

 -which I have drawn to the dimensions given, from which I think you will 

 agree with me in concluding that the bird is a male ruft' in autumn plumage, 



