Charadriid^.] 



RINGED PLOVER. 



^GIALITIS HIATICULA (Linn^us). 



In collection of 

 H. Massey, Esq. 



Explanation of Plate. 



Fignre 1. Inner Fern Island, May 16, 1886. In collection of R. W. Chase, Esq. 



„ 2. Links of Keiss, N.B., May 20, 1887. 



„ 3. Tain, N.B., June 4, 1892. 



„ 4. Chesil Beach, Weymouth, June 27, 1892. 



„ 5. Lincolnshire. 



„ 6. Chesil Beach, Weymouth, May 23, 1892. 

 „ 7. Newburgh, Aberdeenshire, June 6, 1888. 



„ 8. Tain, N.B., June 4, 1892. 

 „ 9. Chesil Beach, Weymouth, June 13, 1893. 



„ 10. Denmark, May 2, 1886. 



„ 11. Lapland, June 22, 1889. 



„ 12. Ditto. June 19, 1889. 



Figures 10, 11, and 12 represent eggs of the smaller race. 



The Kinged Plover is a common resident in the British Islands, breeding on 

 the coasts and sometimes on the shores of inland lakes, and occasionally on sandy 

 warrens at some distance from the sea. 



Mr. Howard Saunders writes * : — " Throughout the British Islands the Ringed 

 Plover is generally distributed along the flat portions of the coast, as well as on 

 sandy warrens and inland lakes at some distance from the sea, while on migration 

 it is also found by the banks of rivers. The birds which are more or less resident 

 here, and on the opposite shores of France and Holland, as well as those which 

 arrive from the north in autumn, are larger, more bullet-headed, and duller in the 

 colour of the mantle than those which come from the south in spring, and leave 

 us after a short stay — of which, perhaps, a few remain to breed in Kent and 

 Sussex." 



Mr. Seebohm divides this species into two races, viz. the Greater Ringed 

 Plover, breeding in the British Islands and Western Europe, and the Ringed 



* 'Manual of British Birds,' p. 523. 6 181* 



