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birdstuffer) wife washed them " as she would stockings," and hung 

 them out to dry (B. of N. vol. ii. p. 65). A third example is 

 referred to. 



Eudromias morinellus. Dotterel.- — B. E. Has in a few in- 

 stances in late years been secured on the North Denes ; much 

 less frequent than in the earlier half of the century. An aged 

 gunner recently informed me that (when a young man in the 

 fifties), he several times met with these birds on the denes, which 

 were so tame that he used to walk round them, in lessening 

 circles, to get them to ** bunch up " before shooting them. An 

 example killed itself against Winterton lighthouse, May 30th, 

 1898; same time two were taken at Repps ; two or three others 

 August of same year. 



Mgialitis asiatica. Caspian Plover. — A. An adult male of 

 this Asiatic species (now in the Norwich Castle Museum) was 

 shot in a market-garden bordering the North Denes, Yarmouth, 

 on May 23nd, 1890. Two were seen, but only one killed. 



J5J. hiaticula. — Ringed Plover. — C. "With us more or less all 

 the year round. In spring greater numbers, passing, one or two 

 couples still endeavouring to nest on the shingle patches above 

 high-water mark. In the seventies several nests might be dis- 

 covered near the rifle-butts. I have known of some instances 

 where eggs have been taken home by certain persons, and the 

 young have been hatched out. This is a very wary species, 

 often alarming flocks of Dunlins on the approach of danger. 

 Local ornithologists distinguish a larger and a smaller variety. 

 Local, " Ring Dotterel " and *' Stone-runner." 



M.cantiana. Kentish Plover. — N.U. May be "frequent," but 

 is not easily recognisable, at a distance, from the immature of the 

 Ringed Plover. I occasionally see a couple or more on Breydon 

 in May ; observed three there on a mud-flat, May 30th, 1898. 



Charadrius pluvialis. Golden Plover. — C. Common in the 

 autumn, when individuals with partly black breasts are some- 

 times obtained. We very rarely observe it on the spring 

 migration, although thirty were observed in March a year or 

 two since on the Bure marshes during a severe fall of snow. 

 I observed one as early as July 14th, 1896, on the Bure 

 marshes. 



Squatarola helvetica. Grey Plover. — C. Small flocks of 



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