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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
they frequented the shores of the lake for several days 
before passing northward." 
In his edition of White's Selborne, the same writer 
remarks that he never saw them at Avington in the 
autumn, and believed they returned south another way. 
On the reaches of the Upper Test, at Overton, Laver- 
stoke and Whitchurch, the bird undoubtedly remains 
throughout the summer, but its nest has yet to be found. 
(Munn.) 
In the New Forest, on the other hand, it has long been 
known to nest occasionally. Wise says that " a pair now 
and then remain to breed at Whitten Pond, near Burley, 
and also at Ocknell." ^ 
Mr. Hart has four eggs in his collection, as well as 
young in down, procured in July, 1893, and Mr. Meade- 
Waldo has seen an old pair with young ones on the river 
above Lymington.^ 
Munn has noticed it on the shores of Hatchett Pond, 
near Bealieu, on the spring migration, another observer 
having mistaken it on several occasions for the ringed 
plover. 
As regards the Isle of Wight, Bury says that they 
appear at Bonchurch about the end of April, and no doubt 
breed, leaving again about the end of September. More, 
writing twenty years later, says that the only locality 
where it may possibly nest is in the neighbourhood of 
Freshwater, " where Mr. Rogers says that more than one 
pair are to be found during the breeding-season." 
Dr. Cowper ^ assures us that it rears its young every 
year at Bembridge. Mr. Poole confirms its remaining 
throughout the summer in small numbers. 
' "New Forest." - " Victoria Histoiy of Hants." 
3 " Hants Court Guide." 
