RINGED P LOVER- KILLDEER PLOVER. 287 
218. yEgialitzs hiaticula. Ringed Plover. 
Ox-bird. 
A common resident on the coasts of the mainland, less 
common in the Isle of Wight, and rarely occurring inland. 
When White notes in his Journal on July 24th, 1775, 
" A sea-lark shot at Newton Pond," he presumably refers 
to this species, which is so called by Pennant. 
A specimen in the Alton Museum is dated " Alton, 
1858." 
Dr. J. E. H. Kelso, of Portsmouth, has described ^ a 
nest which he found in a field near the coast in that 
neighbourhood, made of bents, like a small peewit's nest, 
showing that the bird occasionally in this county departs 
from its usual habit of laying among the stones on the 
sea-shore. 
More, writing in i860, considered that this bird no 
longer nested in the Island, but Dr. Cowper reports that it 
certainly does so in the neighbourhood of Bembridge ; 
and Mr. Woods, of Sandown, has eggs taken at Gurnard, 
in May, 1901. 
It appears, in fact, to be an increasing species within 
our limits. 
219. ^gialitis vocifera. Killdeer Plover. 
A very rare accidental visitor from the American 
Continent. 
The first specimen of this species ever procured in 
' " Zoologist." January, 1 902. 
