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CASPIAN PLOVER. 



jEGIALITIS ASIATIC a [Pall). 



Charadrius asiaticus, Pall. Reise Russ. ii. p. 715 (1773). 

 iEgialitis asiatica, Dresser, vii. p. 479. 



One occurrence only of this Asiatic species has 

 hitherto been recorded as having taken place in Great 

 Britain, and I cannot do better than condense that 

 record from Appendix A, pp. 382-384, to vol. iii. of 

 Stevenson's ' Birds of Norfolk,' by Mr. Thomas 

 Southwell, through whose kind offices I obtained the 

 loan of the bird for the purposes of this work. Mr. 

 Southwell writes :— " On the evening of May 23, 1890, 

 I received from Mr. Lowne, of Great Yarmouth, the 

 fresh skin of a handsome full-j)lumaged male of this 

 species, which he sent for determination, as the bird was 

 unknown to him. I subsequently learned the following 

 particulars. Daring the morning of May 22 two 

 strange birds were seen in a large market-garden, 

 bordering on the North Denes, at Yarmouth, which 

 attracted the attention of a man who works the garden 

 for a Mr. Bracey ; but he had no opportunity of a shot. 

 About 5.30 P.M., when they were on the golf-ground, 

 which forms a portion of the denes, the step-son of the 

 man who had seen them in the morning saw them, and 



