GREY PLOVER. 
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during tbe remainder of the day ; I, however, fell in with both Kentish Plover and Temminck’s Stints, and 
succeeded in obtaining specimens of each species. 
The first arrival of black-bi’easted birds in full summer plumage is usually about the 10th or 12th of May. 
I see by notes taken Avhile shooting on Breydon, in the spring of 1871, that the earliest Grey Plovers Avere 
observed that season on the 12th, and scA’^eral Avith other Avaders and a handsome Curlew Sandpiper were shot 
during the course of the day. These birds continued to arriA’C on tbe flats daily for nearly a fortnight, large 
numbers being seen on three or four occasions. 
On the 24th of May, 1871, there Avere several flocks of Grey PloA^ers gathered together here and there on 
the flats at Bieydon, and I obtained as many specimens in perfect plumage as were required for my collection, 
and for the future refrained from molesting them in that state. Repeated shots Avith both punt- and shoulder- 
guns at Bar-tailed Godwits, Curlew Sandpipers, and Little Stints, Avhich secured several specimens of each 
species m their full summer dress, also kept us so continually occupied, that it was not till we had been a 
considerable time on the Avater that we had a chance to partake of any refreshments. 
My notes contain the following remarks on the subject “ About mid-day Ave Avere able to get our 
breakfasts, and having been over ten hours at work on the Avater, we were not inclined to find fault with 
the slight flavour of mud that some of our joints and other eatables had contracted by being stowed away in 
the unclean and close quarters in the bows of our boats three or four times on the appearance of birds, 
just as we were on the point of commencing to satisfy our hunger.” 
