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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Genus — Tringa. 
232. Tringa alpina. Dunlin. 
OXBIRD. 
A very common winter visitor to all our coasts. 
This bird so often remains until May, and so frequently 
dons its summer plumage before leaving us, that we should 
scarcely be surprised at discovering its nest on the moors 
of the New Forest. 
Mr. O. V. Aplin, for example, the author of the " Birds 
of Oxfordshire," saw a black-breasted bird accompanied by 
four young ones in the first plumage in Brading Marshes 
on July 25th, 1887,1 and naturally supposed that they were 
reared at no great distance. 
Bury mentions two examples obtained in full summer 
plumage, one in Sandown Bay on May 9th, 1844, and the 
other at Bonchurch, nine days later, and More writes that 
it has been seen in the Island in every month of the year 
except June. 
This bird seldom wanders inland, but there is a specimen 
in the Heron Court collection, which is one of nine killed 
at one shot on the River Stour by the second Earl of 
Malmesbury. 
Mr. Chalkley assures us that it visits Alresford Pond 
every August, and Captain Reid has observed it at Fleet. 
*' Zoologist." October, 1887. 
