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Caspian Plover {/Egialitis asiatica). On the 23rd May, 1890, 
I received from Mr. Lowne, of Yarmouth, the fresh skin of a full- 
plumaged male of this species, which had been killed on the 
previous day on the North Denes at that place, and which he 
sent to mo for determination. When killed it was accompanied 
by a companion of its own species, presumably a female, which 
escaped, and was no more seen. Full particulars with regard to 
this interesting occurrence will bo found in the ‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ 
vol. iii. p. 382. 
Pectoral Sandpiper ( Tringa macuhita). This New World 
Sandpiper was first made known as an accidental straggler to our 
shores by the occurrence of a female specimen on or near Breydon 
on the 17th October, 1830. This remained for some years in the 
collection of the celebrated .1. Harvey, of Yarmouth, where it was 
discovered by Mr. J. D. Hoy, and sent by him to Audubon, who 
was staying in London, and who pronounced it to be an example 
of Tringa pectoral is. Mr. Hoy recorded it in the ‘Magazine of 
Natural History’ for 1837 (new series, vol. i. ), p. 1 1 G. A 
second specimen was obtained in the same neighbourhood on 
30th September, 1853 (‘Zoologist,’ p. 4124); a third, which 
passed from Mr. Stevenson’s collection into the Norwich Museum, 
at Caister, on the 16th September, 1865 ; and a fourth, now in 
the Lynn Museum, was netted in Terrington Marsh, near that 
town on 9th January, 1868. The next Norfolk specimen was 
shot on the banks of the Bure, close to Yarmouth, on 8th 
September, 1887, and is now in the collection of Mr. K. W. Chase, 
of Edgbaston (‘Zoologist,’ vol. 1887, p. 433); and finally, in 
September of the past year, three others (making eight in all) 
were killed near the. same spot. The first was shot on the 
9th September, 1889, and the other two on the 12tli and 13th 
of the same month. Through the kindness of Mr. B. Dye and 
Mr. Lowne, I had the opportunity of examining these three birds, 
the first in the llesh and the other two shortly after they were set 
up. On comparing these with each other, and with two specimens 
in the Norwich Museum, I was much struck with the great 
disparity in size, and this was not characteristic of age or sex. 
Mr. Stevenson’s bird, which showed greater signs of maturity than 
either of the other Norfolk specimens, measured in the flesh 
200 mm. in total length, whilst two immature examples, the 
