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the second volume of his British Ornithology. T. C. Heysham 

 was then a lad of sixteen, and Dr. Heysham had not long 

 passed the prime of life. They might either of them have 

 taken cognisance of the capture, but whether they did so is 

 unknown. 1 More than eighty years have since elapsed without 

 a recurrence of this species being detected at any point of our 

 faunal area. 



Order LIMICOLuE. Fam. GHARADRIIDJE. 



CREAM-COLOURED COURSER. 



Gursorius gallicus (Gmel.). 



The Cream-coloured Courser has only once straggled to the 

 neighbourhood of the Solway Firth. This was in October 

 1862. Mr. Richard Mann recollects the interest which its 

 appearance awakened among the local gunners, several of whom 

 hastened in pursuit. The bird was shot on the beach at 

 Allonby by a man named Costin. It was identified and pur- 

 chased by the late Mr. T. H. Allis of York. I understand that 

 Mr. Allis was in the habit of purchasing specimens of stuffed 

 birds and insects from the local collectors, whom he saw from 

 time to time in Cumberland when travelling in the tea-trade. 2 



DOTTEREL. 



Eudromias morindlns(L.). 



Although the mountains of the Lake district undoubtedly 

 afford many suitable nesting-grounds for this Plover, it would 

 be a mistake to suppose that the Dotterel has at any time bred 

 at all numerously even in the wildest regions. From time 

 immemorial the Dotterel has visited Lakeland on its spring 

 passage, sometimes in large flights, and a few individual pairs 

 have frequently spent the summer with us. But this has never 

 been true of the greater number. On the contrary, these have 



1 I have failed to find any reference to this noteworthy event in the 

 Carlisle Journal for the year indicated. 



2 Zoologist, 1864, p. 9457. 



