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Spaniards catch them like eels, by laying night-lines or hooks 
baited with a worm in their feeding- places : this is a most 
cruel method of procuring them, as the unfortunate bird 
lingers in agony for hours, often being left till it flutters 
itself to death. 
In Malta the Eastern Golden Plover (C fulvus) has 
appeared, and may occasionally wander into Spain. The 
distinguishing mark of the Golden Plover from that species 
is its white axillaries, which are smoky grey in C. fulvus. 
219. EuDROMiAS MORINELLUS (Linn.). The Dotterel. 
" This bird, which appears to travel in company with 
Cursorius isabellinus, is found near Tangier sparingly on its 
annual passage during August and September, frequenting 
in small flocks the same dry places that the Courser inhabits; 
and, like them, it seems to dread the cold." — Favier. 
Could Favier occasionally have seen the Dotterel on 
mountain-tops in Scotland, he would not have supposed them 
to fear the cold ; but curiously enough he omits to mention 
the date of their appearance in spring ; and I have no record 
in my notes of observing it at that season on the Spanish side 
of the Straits : the few I have seen were in autumn, the latest 
being shot about the 9th of November. Probably they pass 
straight on, and thus appear rarer than is the case ; but I 
imagine their line of migration must be further to the 
east, 
220. ^GiALiTis HiATicuLA (Limi.). The Ringed Plover 
or Ring-Dotterel. 
Spanish. Frailecillo, Correrios : these names belong also 
to the next two species. 
'' This Ringed Plover is, near Tangier, found in small 
numbers in pairs and companies on the sea-shore. They arrive 
during the months of September, October, and November, 
returning north again in April and May." — Favier. 
Though I have no absolute proof, I am nearly sure that 
this species occasionally remains to breed near Gibraltar, as I 
liave shot them as late as the 28th of May, and have seen eggs 
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