DOTTEREL 207 
week in May. Some nesting hollows are neatly lined with 
fragments of stone and shell; others have no lining what- 
ever; innumerable excavations of the same nature, like 
trial nests, may be found on the same ground. The site is 
usually just above high-water mark, as with the Oyster- 
catcher, and these two birds are usually found breeding in 
company, but on the Ayre the nesting ground of both 
extends a little further inland. Mr. Graves found a nest 
on the Ayre in a situation unusually sheltered, among the 
high growth of sea-reed. 
One was killed at Langness light 12th May 1904, an 
unusual occurrence with this, as with most waders. 
The species is common on all the low coasts of Ireland, 
its numbers being increased in winter. It abounds in 
Galloway, and nests all along the sandy coasts of Cumber- 
land and Lancashire, except where banished by the growth 
of towns. It is a characteristic and conspicuous bird of all 
the Scottish groups of isles, wherever suitable localities occur. 
_EUDROMIAS MORINELLUS (Linn.). 
DOTTEREL. 
The only Manx specimen on record was shot by Mr. 
F, M. Stephen, of Douglas, at Ballacutchell, Santon, in the 
autumn of 1896, and is in his possession. It is said to 
have been a female, and is in very dull plumage with a 
slight trace of red underneath. The locality is cultivated 
upland, some five hundred feet above sea-level. 
There are but twelve records for Ireland, mostly in the 
autumn migration, but it has been met with in Antrim, 
Down, and Donegal (in neither county since 1854). It 
