DOTTEREL. 
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past to procure the eggs of the Dotterel for the purpose 
of adding undoubted specimens to my cabinet, as well 
as to prove beyond all doubt that this bird breeds in 
Cumberland, yet it was not until the present year, 
that I had the gratification of accomplishing an object 
which I have had so long in view. After repeated ex¬ 
cursions through the lake district this summer, for the 
express purpose, I was so fortunate as to obtain their 
eggs in two different localities, namely, three on White- 
side, contiguous to Helvellyn, on the 29th of June; and 
two on the 5th of July, on Robinson, in the vicinity of 
Buttermere. The former had been incubated twelve or 
fourteen days, the latter were only recently laid ; and in 
both instances the birds were seen to leave their eggs. 
On this day, the 5th of July, 1835, a young bird, a few 
days old, was also captured/' 
The Dotterel also breeds on the Grampian Hills in 
Scotland; and Mr. Wolley found several of their nests 
upon the mountains which form the boundary between 
Norway and Sweden. 
The eo-tr figured, with two others from the same 
nest, was most kindly procured for the purpose by the 
Rev. T. D. H. Battersby of St. Johns Parsonage near 
Keswick. They were found on Grassmoor, a mountain 
overhanging Crummock Water. 
It appears from the observations of Mr. Heysham, as 
well as by the statement of Dr. Thieneman, that the 
Dotterel lays but three eggs; a curious deviation from 
the rule which seems to regulate the allied species, since 
all those of the genera Chciradrius, Scolopax , and Tringa, 
lay invariably four eggs. 
