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spring and autumn, There is also a specimen in the 
collection of the late Mr. Kinvig at Castletown. Mr. 
Kermode adds that ‘the birds used to be common about 
Castletown, but it must be remembered that the name is 
often applied to the Golden Plover, which still occurs 
comparatively plentifully in the neighbourhood. 
Mr, Lumsden told Mr. Kermode he had shot Grey 
Plovers ‘many years ago near Peel.’ 
The species is an annual winter visitor to Belfast Lough : 
its numbers are limited in Ireland generally. It visits 
Galloway and north-western England, usually sparingly, 
but Mr. Service says that sometimes considerable flocks 
appear on the Scottish Solway. It has occurred scarcely in 
all the outer groups of Scottish islands, and is probably rare 
in the Outer Hebrides, In Britain it is most plentiful on 
the east side. 
AAGIALIITIS HIATICULA (Uinn.). RINGED 
PLOVER. 
Miter or MiLiarD, SeA-Lark, Sanp-Lark. (The latter names 
applied to this and other small shore birds.) 
This pleasant little shore bird is in Man by far the most 
abundant and best distributed of the species of kindred life 
frequenting the tide-edge. It is, however, resident here 
only on sandy and gravelly shores, and though these extend 
all round the north end of the island from Michael to 
Ramsey, they are elsewhere almost confined to a few of the 
larger bays, where the surrounding land is too well occupied 
by man to give the birds a chance to nest. None appear 
to breed, as they do in other parts of Britain, on turfy 
