Chauadkius. birds. rilESSmOSTRFS. US 



durino' winter. It probably breeds with us, as Mr Simnionds observed it in 

 tiie Mull of Cantyre on the 2d June (Linn. Ti-ans. viii. 2G8), and Mr 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. Pluvkdis. Green Plover. — Bill and legs dusky, plu- 

 mage, above, black, with yellowish green spots. 



Pluvialis viridis, Will. Orn. 229. Sihb. Scot. 1!) — Char. Pluv. Linn. Syst. 



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



Orn. ii. 535 — E, Grey Plover, Whistling Plover ; jr, Cwttyn yr avir. 



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

 Length 1 ^ , 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. Bi'east black. Quills dusky, witli white margins. 

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

 black on the breast disappears, 'ihe 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 j'ellow is less bright, and the whole pliunage 



has a cinereous tinge. 



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

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

 niounted by a narrow one of black. 



Morinellus Anglorum, Will. Orn. 230. Sihb. Scot. 1.9 — 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. Hiaticula. Ringed Plover. — Bill and legs orange ; 

 breast with a large black patch encircling the neck. 



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

 ii. 479. Temm. Orn. i. 539 — £, Ring Dottrel, Sea I-ark, Dulwilly ; S, 

 Sandy Laverock, 2V, Sandy Loo Resident. 



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