234 CHARADRIIDA 
Europe,’ 1880). On its southern migration in autumn, 1t 
visits the coast-lands of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North 
America, travelling in the cold season as far as India, 
Australia, Madagascar, and Central America. On passage, 
it has been taken along the shores of rivers and other 
inland waters. 
DESCRIPTIVE CHARACTERS. 
PLUMAGE. Adult male nuptial..—Forehead, white, this 
colour extending back over the eye as a streak; top of 
head, back, scapulars, and wings, chequered and barred 
with dark brown and white; primaries, dark brown, the 
shorter ones being thinly edged with white; tail, barred 
’ black and white; cheeks, throat, neck, and breast, black ; 
abdomen and under tail-coverts, white; axillaries, black. 
Adult female nwptial.—Similar to the male plumage, 
except that the black on the cheeks and under-parts is less 
developed and takes the form of irregular patches; the 
back and wings are less mottled than in the male nuptial 
plumage. 
Adult winter, male and female.—Forehead, cheeks, neck, 
throat, and breast, washed with pale greyish-white; abdomen 
and under tail-coverts, white; back and wings, chequered 
light brown and white. 
Immature, male and female.—The shadings on the top 
of the head, hind-neck, back, scapulars, and wings, are pale 
straw-yellow, and the ground-colour of brown predominates 
(especially on the head) more than in the adult winter- 
plumage. Also, in the immature bird, the mottling is 
carried down from the breast to the lower part of the 
abdomen and flanks; axillaries, smoky-brown rather than 
black. 
BEAK. Blackish. 
Fret. Dark brown; a very small hind-toe. 
IrtpEs. Blackish-brown. 
' Note.—At the early date of January 19th, 1900, Mr. F. Walker shot 
a Grey Plover on the slob-lands of Dublin Bay, showing signs of the 
nuptial plumage, in the form of a few small black patches under the 
throat, and on the breast. 
On March 17th, 1900, I saw two beautiful birds, in full nuptial 
dress, among a flock of fourteen, in ordinary winter-plumage. 
