C A S P IA N P L O V E R .
CASPIAN PLOVER.
JEGIALITIS ASIATIC A {Pall.).
Charadrius asiaticus, Pall. Reiss Russ. ii. p. 715 (1773).
iEgialitis asiatica, Dresser, vii. p. 479.
One occurrence only of this Asiatic species has
hitherto been recorded as having taken place in Great
Britain, and I cannot do better than condense that
record from Appendix A, pp. 382—o84, to vol. iii. of
Stevenson’s ‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ by Mr. 1 horn as
Southwell, through whose kind offices I obtained the
loan of the bird for the purposes of this work. Mr.
Southwell writes :—“ On the evening of May 23, 1890,
I received from Mr. Lowne, of Great Yarmouth, the
fresh skin of a handsome full-plumaged male of this
species, which he sent for determination, as the bird was
unknown to him. I subsequently learned the following
particulars. Daring the morning of May 22 two
strange birds were seen in a large market-garden,
bordering on the North Denes, at Yarmouth, which
attracted the attention of a man who works the garden
for a Mr. Bracey; but he had no opportunity of a shot.
About 5.30 p .m., when they were on the golf-ground,
which forms a portion of the denes, the step-son of the
man who had seen them in the morning saw them, and