134 RARE VISITANTS. 



LITTLE EINGED PLOVEE. 2Egialitis curonicus 

 (Gmelin)*. 



Hab. Europe ; Asia ; North Africa. 

 One, Shoreham, Sussex (Doubleday) : Gould, Birds of Europe. 

 Two, Norwich Museum, said to have been killed in Norfolk 



(Lubbock, ' Fauna of Norfolk,' p. 73) ; one only exists at 



present, and its history is more than doubtful : cf. Steven- 

 son, Birds of Norfolk, vol. ii. p. 97. 

 One, Whixley, Yorkshire, 30th July, 1850 : Garth, Zoologist, 



1850, p. 2953. 

 One, Shoreham, Sussex, Sept. 1851 r Ellman, Zodogist, 1851, 



p. 3279. 

 One near Brighton : Cavafy, Naturalist, 1854, p. 234. 

 Several between Cuckmere Haven and Seaford, Sussex, Feb. 



1855 : Grantham, Zoologist, 1855, p. 4762. 

 One out of a flock near Barnstaple, Sept. 1859: Mathew, 



Zoologist, 1859, p. 6762. 

 One, Christchurch, Hants, " many years ago : " Wise, New 



Forest (1862), p. 315. 

 One, Scilly, Oct. 1863 : Kodd, Zoologist, 1863, p. 8848. 

 One, Kingsbury Reservoir, Middlesex, 30th Aug. 1864 : 



Harting, Zoologist, 1864, p. 9283 j Birds of Middlesex, 



p. 149. atln the author's collection. 

 Three out' of a flock of twenty, between Lewes and Newhaven, 



17th March, 1866 : Monk, Zoologist, 1866, p. 229. 



EZLLDEEE PLOYEE. JEgialitis wcif&rus (Linnaeus). 



Hab. North and South America. 

 One, Knapp MiU, near Christchurch, Hants, April 1857: 



Sclater, Ibis, 1862, p. 275. 



* Charadrms curonicus, Gmelin, Syst. Nat. i. p. 692 (1788), and 

 Be8eke,_^c?e Gmelin, Vog. Kurlands, p. 66 (1792). C. philippinus, 

 Latham, Ind. Orn. ii. p. 745 (1790). C. fluviatUis, Bechstein, 

 Naturg. Vog. Deutschl. p. 422 (1809). C. minor, Meyer & Wolf, 

 Taschenb. Vog. DeutschL u. p. 324 (1810). 



