LIMICOLM. ( 224 ) CHARADRIID^. 



THE RINGED PLOVER 



RING DOTTEREL, SAND LARK, SANDY LAVEROCK, SANDY LOO, 

 DULWILLY, STONEHATCH, STONE PLOVER. 



^gialitis hiaticula. 



the Plover fondly tries 



To lure the sportsman from her nest. 

 And fluttering on with anxious cries, 

 Too plainly shows her tortured breast ; 

 Oh let him, conscious of her care, 

 Pity her pains, and learn to spare. 



Shenstone. 



The sea-coast of Berwickshire, which consists chiefly of 

 precipitous rocks with very little sandy beach, is not 

 suitable for the Einged Plover, which, on that account, 

 is but rarely seen. It is, however, occasionally observed 

 at the sea-side, and also, though very seldom, along the 

 banks of our rivers. Two specimens are recorded as having 

 been observed on the Tweed near Coldstream by the Presi- 

 dent of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, when the Club 

 met there on the 4th of May 1842 ;^ and a Einged Plover 

 is also mentioned as having been noticed on the Leader by 

 Mr. Walter Simson, Lauder.^ 



This pretty bird is resident all the year in the neigh- 

 bouring county of East-Lothian, where the sea beach is flat. 



1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. ii. p. 4. 2 ma. vol. vii. p. 305. 



