8o BIRDS OF THE DISTRICT OF GEELONG 
in Victoria for observation of this species, we are 
accustomed to meet with birds in every stage of 
plumage. Rarely, however, does one see a specimen 
with the two bands in perfect colouring. 
The birds arrive in this district early in April, and 
remain through the winter. The latest date upon 
which I have noted them is September 30th, at 
Torquay. 
The localities they visit are the following : the 
Salterns at Stingaree Bay, particularly near the 
junction of the Point Henry and Portarlington Roads ; 
the seaward side of the Connewarre Lakes and Lower 
Barwon Mangrove Flats ; and the Ocean Beach from 
Point Lonsdale to Torquay. Formerly they came 
every April to the grassy common near the Break- 
water now occupied by the Racecourse ; I have not 
seen them in that locality of late years. Once I 
remember noting a flock in a grass paddock at Moolap, 
birds which had come across from the Salt Works, 
I imagine. 
Because of the number of immature birds, the fact 
that they are chiefly in winter dress, and their habit 
of associating in flocks with the Red-capped Dotterel, 
it is not easy to pick out the Double-banded Dotterel 
at any distance. In fact, all these smaller Waders are 
so much alike that without shooting them one can 
never be quite certain of their identity. One may 
say, however, that in the localities indicated this 
will be the commonest " Sandpiper " at that time of 
year ; it is to be told from the Red-capped Dotterel, 
