72 British Birds, with their Nests and Eggs. 



Family— CHARADRIWM. 



Caspian Plover. 



^gialitis asiatica, PalL. 



AN adult male of this bird, (whicli had previously been twice obtained in 

 Heligoland; see Gatke, "Heligoland," etc., p. 476), was shot on the sand 

 dunes near Great Yarmouth, on May 22nd, 1890, and is now in the Norwich 

 Museum. This species may be distinguished from all the other species of Aigialitis 

 which have occurred on our shores, by the chestnut pectoral band of the adult 

 bird, (dusky brown-grey in young birds, but always with indications of chestnut 

 mixed with the grey), brown head, with no black on it, and long legs, (tarsus 

 i'6 inches), which are yellow in adults, pinkish in young birds.. 



It breeds on the Kirghiz Steppes and in Central Asia, (see Dresser, " P.Z.S." 

 1875, p. 97), and passes through S.B. Europe on migration, wintering in Eastern 

 Africa and India. 



Family— CHAR ADR IIDM, 



Kentish Plover. 



y^gia/itis cajitiaita, LaTH. 



This bird gets its specific name and the Latin form of it, " Cavtiana^ from 

 having been described first by Latham, from specimens killed near Sand- 

 wich, in Kent, in 1787. As has already been suggested, local names are misleading; 



