Charadrius. BIRDS. PRESSIROSTRFS. US 



during winter. It probably breeds with us, as Mr Simmonds observed it in 

 the Mull of Cantyre oil the 2d J une (Linn. Trans, viii. 268), and Mi Bul- 

 lock in the end of June, in " the most northern part of Scotland." — Mont. 

 Orn. Diet. Suppt. 



Gen. LXXV. CHARADRIUS. Plover. — Bill shorter 

 than the head, upper mandible swollen dorsally near the 

 end. 



163. C. Pluvialis. Green Plover. — Bill and legs dusky, plu- 

 mage, above, black, with yellowish green spots. 



Pluvialis viridis, Will. Orn. 229. Sibb. Scot. 19 — Char. Pluv. Linn. Syst. 



i. 254 Golden Plover, Penn. Brit. Zool. ii. 474 — Char. Pluv. Temm. 



Orn. ii. 535 E, Grey Plover, Whistling Plover ; IP, Cwttyn yr aur. 



— Common on heaths in summer, and the sea-shore in winter. 



Length 11, breadth 24 inches ; weight 9 ounces. Bill one inch. Irides ha- 

 zel. Front, and a space above the eyes, white ; neck white, with dusky and 

 yellow spots ; belly white. Breast black. Quills dusky, with white margins. 

 Tail of 12 feathers. In winter the black on the back tildes to dusky, and the 

 black on the breast disappears. The female has the black on the breast less 



distinct Nest, of a few rushes, in heaths. Eggs 4, cinereous-olive, blotched 



with dusky — In the young the yellow is less bright, and the whole, plumage 

 has a cinereous tinge. 



164. C. Mormellus. Dottrel. — Bill and legs dusky ; breast 

 dull orange, passing, above, into a transverse line of white, sur- 

 mounted by a narrow one of black. 



Morinellus Anglorum, Will. Orn. 230. Sibb. Scot. 19 — Char. Mor. 



Linn. Syst. i. 254. Penn. Brit. Zool. ii. 477- Temm. Orn. ii. 537 



W, Huttan ; G, Amadan mointich. — A summer visitant. 



Length 10, breadth 19 inches; weight 5 ounces. Bill an inch in length. 

 Irides hazel. Feet with a greenish tinge. Cheeks, throat, and a broad stripe 

 from above the eyes to the nape, white ; crown and belly black. Back olive- 

 brown, with ferruginous margins. Vent and thighs rufous. Quills dusky- 

 brown; the shaft of the first white. Tail of 12 feathers; brown, barred near 

 the end with black, and tipped with white. In winter the plumage, above, 

 has a cinereous tinge. The female has likewise more cinereous, and the black- 

 on the belly is mixed with white. — Nest unknown — The young have the 

 crown reddish, with longitudinal dark streaks. — This species appears in Eng- 

 land and the south of Scotland in April, and again in September. On the 

 Grampians, however, there is reason to believe that it breeds. In the Statis- 

 tical Account of the Parish of Carmylie (vol. i. 437), it is said, " The dot- 

 trels, birds of passage, alight on the rising grounds, about the beginning of 

 April, continue here about three weeks, remove to the Grampian hills about 

 12 miles to the northward, and revisit this parish about the beginning of Au- 

 gust. After abiding here about three weeks, they fly off to the southward, 

 and are not seen till the first of April following." Colonel Thornton inform- 

 ed Montagu that he saw dottrels in pairs on the Grampians ; but not young 

 birds. 



165. C. Hiaticida. Ringed Plover. — Bill and legs orange : 

 breast with a large black patch encircling the neck. 



Will. Orn. 230. Sibb. Scot. 19. Linn. Syst. 253. Penn. Brit. Zool. 

 ii. 479. Temm. Orn. i. 539 — E, Ring Dottrel, Sea Lark, Dulwilly ; .V, 

 Sandy Laverock, 2V, Sandy Loo ltesident. 



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