GREY PLOVER. 



Charadriid^.] 



SQUATAROLA HELVETICA (Linn^ds). 



Explanation op Plates. 



Figure 1. No. 11196. "1 . . . 



I Franklin Bay, Arctic America ; R. MacFarlane 



" ,, ' , ,„„, f coll. U.S. National Museum Collection. 

 „ 3. „ 11193, July 4, 1864. J 



4 "I 

 " • I Petchora, lat. 68° N., June & July 1875 ; Seebohm and Harvie-Brown coll. 



[ Natural History Museum, South Kensington. 



6.J 



C. E. Pearson coll. \ 



I Gobista River, Kolguev. In collection 

 ■ H. J. Pearson coll. 1 of H. J. Pearson, Esq. 



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7. July 7, 1895 



„ 8. „ 9, 1895 



„ 9. „ 11, 1895 



„ 10. „ 11, 1895 



The Grey Plover is a spring and autumn migrant to the British Islands, 

 numbers remaining through the winter. 



Describing the geographical distribution of this species, the late Mr. H. 

 Seebohm writes * : — " The Grey Plover is a circumpolar bird, but has only been 

 known to breed on the tundras above the limit of forest-growth. It appears to be 

 very local in its distribution during the breeding-season. It is not known with 

 certainty to breed anywhere except in the lower valley of the Petchora, on the 

 Taimyr peninsula in the extreme north of Siberia, in Alaska, on the banks of the 

 Anderson River, and on Melville Peninsula f. It passes through Central and 

 Southern Europe on migration, and winters in the basin of the Mediterranean and 

 in Africa north of the equator. The eastern birds pass through South Siberia, 

 Turkestan, Mongolia, and Japan on migration, and winter in India, South China, 

 the islands of the Malay archipelago, and Australia. In the New World its 

 range has not been so accurately determined, but it is known to winter in the 

 West Indies and in several parts of South America." 



The eggs of the Grey Plover were first discovered by MiddendorfF in 1843 on 



* ' History of British Birds,' vol. iil. pp. 44, 45. 



t [Since this was written eggs have also been obtained on Kolguev and on the Eiver Yenisei. — 

 P.P.] 



