. The vertebrate fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay. by Coward at Marbury,and by Dr. M. S. Wood at Gatley near Cheadle. We haveseen birds many times in August and September, singly orin twos and threes, often in the company of DunUns, on theborder of Marbury Mere near Northwich, where a sandspitat the mouth of a brook is a favourite resting place formigratory waders. The earhest date on which we have seenRinged Plovers on the mere is August 5th, the latestSeptember 8th ; the birds are both adult and have seen an example that was shot at Poynton August 7th, 1899, Oldham saw
. The vertebrate fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay. by Coward at Marbury,and by Dr. M. S. Wood at Gatley near Cheadle. We haveseen birds many times in August and September, singly orin twos and threes, often in the company of DunUns, on theborder of Marbury Mere near Northwich, where a sandspitat the mouth of a brook is a favourite resting place formigratory waders. The earhest date on which we have seenRinged Plovers on the mere is August 5th, the latestSeptember 8th ; the birds are both adult and have seen an example that was shot at Poynton August 7th, 1899, Oldham saw one at Redes Mere, andon August 27th, 1905, an adult bird on the mud at BosleyReservoir ; it had probably dropped out of a flock of passingwaders, since, in addition to a number of Lapwings, aGreenshank and a Ruff were on the mud. Ringed Ploverson migration sometimes pass over mid-Cheshire in autumn ;Oldham heard several passing at Knutsford in 1902 onthe night of August 13th, and on the 29th Coward heardbirds calling as they passed over Bowdon. ». BIRDS 379 KENTISH PLOVER. Aegialitis cantiana (Latham). Has been once observed. The Kentish Plover is almost unknown in the west of Englandnorth of Devon, but it has occurred once on the springmigration in Cheshire. On April 29th, 1908, Coward sawtwo in company with six Dunlins on the margin of themere at Marbury near Northwich. He identified them bytheir incomplete pectoral bands, black legs and bills, sandybacks, and by their size as compared with that of theDunHns. The birds, a male and a female or immature bird,were exceedingly tame and allowed him to approach withina dozen yards. In the paler bird the cheeks, frontal band,and patch in front of the wing, which in the male wereblack, were of a darker brown than the rest of the sandyplumage, but the lores, as in the male, were black. Thebirds were paler than Ringed Plovers. On this date—April 29th—there were a number of passing migrants aboutthe mere which were not there two
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