160 RINGED DOTTEREL. 



RINGED DOTTEREL. 



RINGED PLOVER. 

 SAND LARK. SAND LAVROCK. DULL-WILLY. 



PLATE CLII. 

 Charadrius hiaticula, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



THE nest, so to call it, for there is none but any 

 slight natural hollow amongst small gravel, or on 

 a little hillock of sand, frequently under the shelter of 

 some tall grass, is generally placed on a bank by the 

 beach, just above high- water mark, but occasionally 

 in sandy places farther inland, as much, Sir William 

 Jardine says, as ten, or from that to fifteen or twenty 

 miles: in some instances on the banks that line the 

 coast, or even over them in an adjoining field. Among 

 others, on warrens in Norfolk and Suffolk, near Becham- 

 well, Elston, and Thetford, occasionally also in the 

 Fens; great numbers appeared in those of Bottisham, 

 and Swaffham, in Cambridgeshire, the Rev. Leonard 

 Jenyns has recorded, in the months of June and July, 

 it being a remarkably wet season. 



The eggs are four in number, and of a greenish 

 grey, pale buff or cream-colour, spotted and streaked 

 with bluish grey and black, or blackish brown. The 

 male and female both sit on them and appear much 



