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the coast in the breeding season at the north-east angle 
of the county, so far as we could judge. 
280. Squatarola helvetica (i.). Grey Plover. 
Ears visitant. Said by Sheriff Mackenzie to occur at intervals 
along the Dornoch Firth. The only specimen seen by our- 
selves, and the only one in the Dunrobin Museum, was 
shot at Kintradwell, among some stones on the shore, on 
January 20, 1871, — a solitary bird. 
It may be worthy to remark here that Mr. Macleay of 
Inverness, in all his long bird-stuffing experience, has never 
received but this one specimen to set up.^ 
281. >Cglalitis cantlana (Lath.). Kentish Plover. 
282. i^gialitis curonica {Gm.). Little Ringed Plover. 
[05s.— Both the ringed plover (C. hiaticula, L.) and the little 
ringed plover (C. ctironicct) are included in the List of the 
"Welbeck Abbey collection, there being, however, only one 
of the latter.] 
283. i^gialitis hiaticula (i.). Ringed Plover. 
Eesident, and abundant all along the east coast, and also breeds 
inland in one or two situations, notably on the shores of the 
chain of lochs at Badenloch. Earer in the west, but 
common on the stony waste of land to the south-east of 
Durness, where the crofters cut their peats, near Loch 
Maidagh or Maeddie, and on the bed of a drained-out loch. 
A common and resident species all round the coast. Mr. 
Osborne mentions it as breeding commonly in fallows and 
newly sown oat-fields, laying its eggs on those parts of the 
field where the grain has failed to grow, and in similar 
situations in turnip-fields (0. MSS., 1868). 
1 Our observations of migration tend to show that in spring, Grey Plovers 
shoot off our coasts at Spnrn Point in Yorkshire. In autumn they are regular 
visitors to the estuary of the Forth at Grangemouth, and also to that of the Tay. 
