CLII. 



CHARADRIUS CANTIANUS. (Lath.) 



Kentish Plover. 



The Kentish Plover, according to Mr. Gould, is met with 

 in considerable numbers near Great Yarmouth. It is also 

 found along the flat and shingly beaches of Kent and Sussex, 

 and is sure to be met with on Selsey Beach, and in the imme- 

 diate neighbourhood of Hastings and Sheerness, near Sand- 

 wich, if sought for during the months of May, June, and July. 



In a notice from Mr. Hoy, which accompanies an egg of 

 this species, kindly procured for the use of this work, by 

 Professor C. J. Temminck, he says : The Kentish Plover fre- 

 quents the sea coast, and is found on those parts where there 

 are extensive sandy flats. It makes no nest, but deposits its 

 eggs, four in number, in a small hollow in the sand, or amongst 

 fine shingle and broken shells. 



Mr. Gould, in speaking of this and the following species, 

 says that they lay five eggs. In this he is under a mistake, 

 since no species of this family ever lays more than four. 



CHARADRIUS MINOR. (Meyer.) 

 Little Ring Dotterel. 



This species was first pointed out as an inhabitant of 

 Britain, by Mr. Doubleday, of Epping, who received it from 

 Shoreham, in Sussex ; and so young, that there is no doubt 

 that it was bred there. The person who shot it, had long 

 suspected, from its note, that it was a species yet unnoticed 

 in this country. 



With the beautiful egg drawn at Fig. 2, and the following 

 notice, I have been favoured by Mr. Hoy : 



" The Little Plover appears to be very rarely found on the 



