208 BIRDS OF LANCASHIRE. 



ORDER LIMICOL^. 



FAMILY GLAREOLID^.— GENUS GLAEEOLA. 



COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 



Glareola pratincola (Linnaeus). 



Bullock wrote {Trans. lAnvean Soc, xi. p. 177) : 

 " The first instance of this bird having been killed in 

 Britain occurred in 1807, when one was shot in the 

 neighbourhood of Ormskirk, in Lancashire ; it was 

 preserved by Mr. -J. Sherlock, of that place, from whom 

 I purchased it a few days afterwards." This specimen 

 passed into the collection of the then Earl of Derby, 

 and is still in the Derby Museum at Liverpool. 

 Montagu (" Orn. Die") apparently referring to the same 

 bird, says he was assured by Bullock it was shot on the 

 18th of May, 1804, in the act of taking beetles on wing, 

 the remains of which were found in its stomach, and 

 that it was thought to be a male. 



FAMILY CHARADRlIDiE.— GENUS CHARADEIUS. 



GOLDEN PLOVER. 



Charadrius pluvialis, Limipeus. 



Local Name — Yelloir Plorer. 



This handsome species breeds not uncommonly on 

 many of the moorlands, and in winter is sometimes 



