THE RINGED PLOVER. 21$ 



These forms migrate in separate flocks, and have different 

 areas of distribution. The small dark race arrives here late in 

 the spring, and does not remain to breed, but passes north to 

 Arctic Europe. 



Mr. Seebohm, however, recognised the races as subspecific 

 only, as they intergrade. This qualification Mr. Sharpe seems 

 to have missed when treating of the Ringed Plover in his 

 catalogue of the Birds of the British Museum, and there seems 

 no reason why the larger pale form should not be treated as a 

 local variety, and the name hiaticola major retained for it. 



