78 BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
The bird has no hind toe, differing in that from the 
last-described species. 
Little is known of the dates of its arrival and depar- 
ture. It is to be found in small numbers every year 
about Christmas, on the Mangrove Flats about the 
reaches of the Lower Barwon River, and seems to 
prefer a locality where cover grows fairly high. My 
one experience with Golden Plover was at the Salt 
Pits, Point Henry, towards the end of the year 1897. 
I saw a bird on the edge of some samphire scrub, 
bobbing its head up and down while keeping its bill 
at the horizontal in a way many wading birds have. 
I managed to secure it, and later on the same morning 
three or four more. They were in very good con- 
dition. In flight they seemed rather larger than 
in fact they are ; they did not rise high, but kept 
close over the salt-paddocks. In a collection of birds 
made many years ago at Lake Connewarre by the 
late Mr. A. M. Campbell, I saw two specimens of 
this bird, one in winter plumage and the other in 
full summer dress. We know nothing of its nest, 
eggs, or breeding-place, except by inference. 
DOUBLE-BANDED DOTTEREL 
Cirrepidesmus bicinctus 
Until in the Eastern Hemisphere there is adopted 
the method, now coming into vogue with European 
ornithologists, of marking," by means of metal 
