CHARADRIIDA’. 543 
THE KENTISH PLOVER. 
JEGIALITIS CANTIANA (Latham). 
The Kentish Plover is easily recognizable by its incomplete 
pectoral band. It arrives on the shores of England in April, and 
departs, as a rule, in September; but individuals which were prob- 
ably migrants from the Continent have been obtained on the east 
coast in October, Bridlington in Yorkshire being the most northern 
locality in which they have been noticed. Even in Lincolnshire 
the species is of rare occurrence, though more frequent in Norfolk 
and Suffolk ; but on the shingle-beaches of Kent (whence it was first 
described), as well as in Sussex, it formerly bred in considerable 
numbers, though collectors have contributed to its decrease. West- 
ward its appearance is unusual, and only a few specimens are 
recorded from Devon and Cornwall; but in the Channel Islands 
it is not uncommon, especially on Guernsey and the neighbouring 
islets. To Ireland it is a very rare visitor. 
As a wanderer the Kentish Plover has been recorded on. four 
occasions from the south-west of Norway, and it breeds in the south 
of Sweden, though it is rare on the Baltic coast of Germany. In 
Denmark, Holland and Belgium it is fairly numerous, while in 
France and the Spanish Peninsula it is abundant, both on the sea- 
shore and on brackish lagoons at some distance inland. It appears 
