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from those of our own Golden Plover (C. pluvialis, L.) in England, 
and probably from their own at other times when not wind-bound 
and wearied—but run the gauntlet of the carriages, only twisting 
from one to get shot at from another, and often, after flying 
round once or twice, pitching within a short distance*. In 1858, 
I heard of their first occurrence on August 31st. 
“ It is rather a curious fact, that I did not see a single Plover 
that had not more or less trace of the black breast of the breeding- 
plumage remaining; and I saw some hundreds; it would seem 
therefore that the young birds must take a different line in their 
migration from their parents. The bird with the black breast 
is always called simply the ‘ Plover/ and is spoken of in the 
island as distinct from the ‘ Golden Plover.' This latter I did 
not meet with; but in my opinion it is most likely the young of 
the present species, keeping in separate flocks and migrating at 
a different time,—a habit possessed by birds of passage, first 
noticed, I believe, by M. Temminckf."—E. N. 
31. Turnstone. Strepsilas interpres , Illig.; Wils. pi. 57. 
fig. 1; Aud. pi. 304; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 318; Yarr. B. B. ii. 
p. 422 (fig.). 
“ I saw a company of five or six of this thoroughly cosmopo¬ 
litan species in the beginning of April, 1857, on the south 
shore of the island."—A. N. 
“ I shot two Turnstones from a flock of three on the sea¬ 
shore, Sept. 8th, 1858. One was a young, the other an old 
bird."—E. N. 
32. Sanderling. Calidris arenaria, Cuv.; Wils. pi. 59. 
fig. 4, and pi. 63. fig. 3; Aud. pi. 338; Gould, B. Eur. pi. 335 ; 
Yarr. B. B. ii. p. 427 (fig.). 
“ I killed a female bird Sept. 13th, 1858."—E. N. 
Examples of this species from the New World seem to be 
constantly larger than those from the Old. 
* “ So much of the above is identical in opinion, if not in language, with 
the expressions made use of by Mr. Hurdis, in his ornithological notes con¬ 
tributed to Mr. J. M. Jones’s excellent little book ‘The Naturalist in 
Bermuda’ (pp. 71 et seq.), that I feel it necessary to mention that this 
paper was written before I had seen that work.”—E. N. 
t Manuel d’Ornithologie, 3me partie, Intr., p. xliii., note. 
