122 BIRDS OF GUERNSEY. 



Indeed, I do not know that it even remains long 

 enough in the Channel Islands to assume, even 

 partially, the black breast of the breeding plumage, 

 as it so often does in England. 



104. Golden Plover. Charadrius pluvialis, Lin- 

 nseus. French, " Pluvier dore." — A common winter 

 visitant to all the Islands, arriving about the end of 

 October or beginning of November, and remaining 

 till the spring, sometimes till they have nearly 

 assumed the black breast of the breeding-season ; 

 but I do not know that the Golden Plover ever 

 breeds in the Islands, at all events in the present 

 day. 



Professor Ansted includes the Golden Plover in 

 his list, and marks it as occurring in Guernsey and 

 Sark. There is one specimen in the Museum, 

 probably killed rather late in the spring, as it is 

 assuming the black breast. 



105. Dotterel. Eudromias rnorinellus, Linnaeus. 

 French, " Pluvier guignard." — The common Dotterel 

 is a rare occasional visitant to the Channel Islands, 

 occurring, however, on both the spring and autumn 

 migration, as Mr. MacCuUoch says he has a note of 

 a Dotterel killed in May, 1849 ; he does not say in 

 which of the Islands, but probably in Guernsey ; 

 and I have a skin of one, a fine fuU-plumaged bird, 

 according to Mr. Couch, who forwarded me the skin. 



