. British birds. Birds. nOTES. SOCIABLE PLOVEE IN KENT. On May 3rd, 1907, a specimen of the Sociable Plover (VaneUus gregarius (Pallas) ) was shot in Eomney Marsh, Kent, by a shepherd who gave it to a farmer; the latter sent it to Mr. Bristow, taxidermist, of St. Leonards, for preservation, and in his shop I examined it in the flesh. The bird, a female, was one of a flock of six, and is a young- bird in its first breeding- plumag-e. This, the third example obtained in the British Islands, was exhibited by me at the British Ornitholog-ists' Club {vide Bull. , Vol. pag-e 85). The fir
. British birds. Birds. nOTES. SOCIABLE PLOVEE IN KENT. On May 3rd, 1907, a specimen of the Sociable Plover (VaneUus gregarius (Pallas) ) was shot in Eomney Marsh, Kent, by a shepherd who gave it to a farmer; the latter sent it to Mr. Bristow, taxidermist, of St. Leonards, for preservation, and in his shop I examined it in the flesh. The bird, a female, was one of a flock of six, and is a young- bird in its first breeding- plumag-e. This, the third example obtained in the British Islands, was exhibited by me at the British Ornitholog-ists' Club {vide Bull. , Vol. pag-e 85). The first British example was shot in Lancashire about 1860, and the second in , Ireland, onAug-ust 1st, 1899. Besides these examples this species has only been recorded about half-a-dozen times from South-western Em-ope, and not at all from Helig-oland or North-western Europe. The home of this species is in the Steppes of the Crimea and the region between the Don, the Volga and Caucasus, the Caspian region and Turkestan. In autumn it migrates to the u]3lands of Sinde and plains of India; while Ceylon, Arabia, Egypt, Nubia, and Abyssinia are also visited in the cold season. C. B. TiCEHURST. SUPPOSED SEEIN FINCHES IN SUSSEX. My friend. Captain Copp, and I, whilst walking over the downs from Brighton to Lewes, on May 5th, 1907, saw on a piece of fallow, a flock of small birds, consisting of Yellow hammers. Greenfinches and Linnets. Among them were some birds I did not know. Serin Pinches had been in my mind when I saw the birds, and on examining, on the following day, three specimens of this bird in the Booth Musemn, I came to the conclusion that the birds I had seen were Serins {Serinus hortulanus). A subsequent examination of the large series at Cromwell Eoad con- firmed me in this decision. My friend thinks there were. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these
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