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BRITISH BIRDS' NESTS. 



PLOVER, NORFOLK. See CURLEW, STONE. 



YOUNG RINGED PLOVERS 

 AND EGGS. 



PLOVER, RINGED. Also RINGED DOTTEREL. 



(&gialitis hiaticula. ) 

 Order LIMICOL^: ; Family CHARADRIID.E (PLOVERS). 



Description of Parent 

 Birds. Length about seven 

 and three-quarter inches. 

 Beak short, straight, black 

 at the tip, and rich, dark 

 yellow towards the base. 

 Irides brown. Forehead 

 white, middle of crown 

 black, followed by greyish- 

 brown, which extends down 

 the back of the neck ; back 

 and wings greyish-brown, except the ends of the 

 coverts, which are tipped with white, and the 

 primaries, which are dusky, with some white at the 

 base and along the shafts. Upper tail-coverts grey- 

 ish-brown ; quills greyish-black in the centre, out- 

 side feathers white. A black patch commences at 

 the gape and passes under the eye, backward and 

 downward, to the side of the neck. A broadish 

 collar of white passes round the upper part of the 

 neck, followed by a gorget of black, which is deepest 

 in front. Breast and all the under-parts white. 

 Legs and toes orange ; claws black. 



In the female the black parts of the head and 

 neck are not so broad or well defined. 



Situation and Locality. On the plain surface or 

 in a slight hollow, scraped in the sand or shingle 

 above high-water mark on stretches of flat, sandy 



