DOTTEREL — LAPWING TURNSTONE. 
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hands of Turner, said to have been shot, in 1881, also in the same locality, 
where. Turner informs me, it was frequently met with some years ago. I was 
fortunate enough to shoot a specimen (an immature female) for the Museum, 
at Thornton Keservoir, on 25th Sept., 1884. 
In Rutland. — The only note I have is that furnished by C. Masters, who 
tells me that, in August, 1888, he shot a specimen on Burley Ponds. 
DOTTEREL. E^idromias morinellus (Linnteus). 
Formerly occurring in the county as a spring and autumn migrant. — Mr. 
Babington (Supplement ‘Potter’) stated that five were brought down at a shot 
by Mr. Tomlinson, jun., at Charnwood Heath, and that Miss Watkinson, of 
Woodhouse, had one, taken near Buddon Wood. IMr. IMacaulay reports (see 
‘Mid. Nat.,’ 1882, p. 65) that Sir Greorge Beaumont possesses a specimen at 
Coleorton, and Potter, of Billesdon, reports two shot at Ilston, by Mr. J. Allen, 
of Frisby Lodge, but no dates are given, and the bird has not visited the 
counties for many years. 
LAPWING-. Vanellus vulgaris (Bechstein). 
“ Green Plover,” “ Peewit.” 
Resident, and generally distributed ; in severe winters, however, it with- 
draws until the early spring, when it is often met with in large flocks. — On 
4th Nov., 1885, Lapwings were reported to be flocking in meadows by the 
Aylestone-Road Gas-Works, and the next day — the floods being “ out ” — I saw 
several flocks of some six or seven hundred or more congregated in meadows 
opposite the Aylestone IMill. 
Mr. Davenport writes: — “In April, 1884, I remarked a cock and two hen 
Lapwings frequenting a ploughed field for some little time ; eventually I found the 
two nests on the same morning, within ten yards of each other, each nest containing 
four fresh eggs. I am sure there was only one male bird with the two hens.” 
In Rutland. — As in Leicestershire. — Harley, writing of the Lapwing in this 
county, said : — “ It is considered to migrate and totally withdraw itself during 
the rigorous season of winter.” Mr. Horn remarks upon this : — “ To be seen, 
generally in the meadows near the Welland, during mild and open winters, but 
should never expect to see them during frost and snow. About March they 
return in pairs to their breeding-grounds. In the neighbourhood of Uppingham, 
the most in any one field or meadow would be three pairs.” 
TURNSTONE. Strepsilas interpres (Linnaeus). 
An accidental visitant from the coast. — Turner received a male and female, 
shot at the Abbey Meadow about 1880 or 1881, and I saw a young one, said to 
have been shot in the Abbey Meadow in the spring of 1883. It appears an old 
one was shot at the same time and place. 
