CASPIAN PLOVER. 



jEGIALITIS ASIATIC a [Pall.). 



Charadrius asiaticus, Pall. Reiss Russ. ii. p. 715 (]77'i). 

 J^gialitis asiatica, Dresser, vii. p. 479. 



One occurrence only of this Asiatic species has 

 hitherto been recorded as having taken place in Great 

 Britain, and I cannot do better than condense that 

 record from Appendix A, pp. 382-384, to vol. iii. of 

 Stevenson's ' Birds of Norfolk,' by Mr. Thomas 

 Southwell, through whose kind offices I obtained the 

 loan of the bird for the purposes of this work. Mr. 

 Southwell writes : — "On the evening of May 23, 1890, 

 I received from Mr. Lowne, of Great Yarmouth, the 

 fresh skin of a handsome full-plumaged male of this 

 species, which he sent for determination, as the bird was 

 unknown to him. I subsequently learned the following 

 particulars. During the morning of May 22 two 

 strange birds were seen in a large market-garden, 

 bordering on the North Denes, at Yarmouth, which 

 attracted the attention of a man who works the garden 

 for a Mr. Bracey ; but he had no opportunity of a shot. 

 About 5.30 P.M., when they were on the golf-ground, 

 which forms a portion of the denes, the step-son of the 

 man who had seen them in the morning saw them, and 



