LAPWING OR GREEN PLOVER. I97 



the eye and widens on the sides of the neck. The upper breast 

 is slaty brown, bordered below with bands of black and white ; 

 the lower breast is bright chestnut, shading to black on the 

 abdomen and white on the under tail-coverts. The heads of 

 young birds are more rufous and streaked on the crown, the 

 eye-stripe and the blacker upper parts are tinged with buff. 

 The under parts, buff on the breast and flanks, and white on 

 the abdomen, are mottled with brown. The bill is black, the 

 legs are dull yellow, and the irides dark brown. Length, 9 ins. 

 Wing, 6 ins. Tarsus, 1*4 ins. 



Sociable Plover. Chettusia gregaria (Pallas). 



The Sociable Plover, a native of southern Russia, the 

 Caucasus, and Mongolia, winters in India and south-western 

 Asia, and north-eastern Africa ; it has been met with in 

 Lancashire and Ireland in autumn, and in Kent and Sussex in 

 spring. The Lancashire bird was consorting with Lapwings, 

 and like them it is a round-winged plover. The adult bird is 

 ashy brown, with a black crown and a streak through the eye, 

 and between these a conspicuous white stripe from the forehead 

 to the nape. The primaries are black, the secondaries white, 

 the tail mostly white with a subterminal black-brown band. 

 The cheeks and throat are buff, the lower breast brown, shading 

 to black on the belly, the abdomen and flanks rich chestnut. 

 The under tail-coverts are white. The crown of the young 

 bird is brown and its superciliary stripe buff; the under parts 

 are huffish white, with a few dark markings on the breast. 

 The bill and legs are black, the irides dark brown. Length. 

 I3"5 ins. Wing, 8*5 ins. Tarsus, 2*5 ins. 



Lapwing or Green Plover. Vanellus vanellus (Linn.) 



As a nesting species the familiar Lapwing (Plate 85) is found 

 throughout the British Isles, and in winter its numbers are 



