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belief that the Dotterel may, in very limited numbers, annually migrate to the elevated mountains 

 of the county of Tipperary to breed. If so, they are by far its most southern breeding-haunts in 

 the British Islands." 



It has not been met with in the Fseroes, Iceland, or Greenland, but is common in the northern 

 portions of Scandinavia, and breeds in some numbers both in Northern Norway and Swedish 

 Lapland. Mr. Robert Collett informs me that " in Norway it occurs during the spring migration 

 in large flocks on the south coast, from Lindesnaes to the Lower Jaederen, and here and there on 

 the western and northern coasts of that country. It spreads over the more elevated fells during 

 the nesting-season up to the Russian frontier ; and in the southern districts it is found above the 

 boundary of the birch-growth, more especially on the Dovre and the Langfjeld, down to the 

 Norefjeld in Krydsherred, and Hekfjeld in Thelemarken (59° N. lat.). In the autumn it 

 migrates southward the same way that it passes north in the spring, but more to the eastward. 

 It seldom, however, visits the south-eastern lowlands during passage." 



In Sweden it occurs very rarely in the eastern portions during passage ; but in the Stockholm 

 Museum there are two specimens — one shot in Sodermanland in May 1832, and the other 

 obtained at Lycksele in June 1834. It occurs in Finland, during the breeding-season, only in 

 the extreme northern districts, but is met with in the southern and central districts during 

 passage, less commonly, however, in the autumn than in the spring; and it would appear 

 that it is not a common bird in that country. My collector has shot it at Archangel, where 

 it appears to be of uncommon occurrence ; but both Mr. Gillett and Von Heuglin met with it 

 on Novaya Zemlya. The former writes (Ibis, 1870, p. 306) as follows : — " On the 5th of August, 

 at Matthew's Straits, I saw an old bird of this species, with a nearly full-grown young one, which 

 latter I shot. I subsequently saw some more by a river on the eastern side ;" and Von Heuglin 

 says that he " found small flocks near Yugorsky Strait. At the beginning of September the 

 young had still some down on the back of their heads; the adults change even the small 

 feathers." Professor Malmgren includes it in his list of birds occurring in Spitzbergen on the 

 authority of Professor Keilhau, who found one dead on a roof at Stans Foreland ; but there 

 appears to be some doubt as to the correctness of this identification. In Central Russia it is 

 said by Mr. Sabanaeff to be rare, and he only once observed it near Moscow on passage ; in the 

 Ural it probably breeds in the Pavdinskaya Dacha; but he never observed it on passage near 

 Ekaterinburg, or further to the south ; Eversmann says that it breeds in the mountains of 

 Alatau, in about 44° or 45° N. lat. It occurs in North Germany and the Baltic Provinces 

 during the two seasons of migration, but is not very common ; and it passes through Denmark 

 on its way northward early in May, and again on the return migration late in August or early in 

 September, but does not remain to breed there. In Holland, Belgium, and the north of France 

 it occurs regularly during the seasons of passage, in May and again in August ; and in Southern 

 France it is stated by Dr. Companyo to remain throughout the winter in the department of the 

 Pyrenees Orientales. 



In Spain it is, Mr. Howard Saunders writes, " a regular visitor on migration, but by no 

 means abundant at any time ;" and Dr. A. E. Brehm says that it is very rare, and that his 

 brother only once obtained one at Mar-menor, near Cartagena, on the 31st March. It is found 

 in Italy ; and Salvadori speaks of it as being a regular winter visitant to Sardinia, where it is 



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