144 THE GAME BIEDS AND WILD FOWL 



Family CHAKADKIID^E. Genus EUDROMIAS. 



Subfamily CHARADRllNM. 



DOTTEREL. 



EUDEOMIAS MOKINELLUS (Linnceus) . 

 PLATE XXI. 



Charadrius morinellus, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 254 (1766) ; Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B. iii. 



p. 30 (1885) ; Seebohm, Col. Fig. Eggs Brit. B. p. 123, pi. 39 (1896). 

 Pluvialis morinellus (Linn.), Macgill. Brit. B. iv. p. 104 (1850). 



Eudromias morinellus (Linn.), Dresser, B. Eur. vii. p. 507, pi. 526 (1875) ; Yarrell, 

 Brit. B. ed. 4, iii. p. 246 (1883) ; Dixon, Nests and Eggs Brit. B. p. 257 (1893) ; 

 Sharpe, Handb. B. Gt. Brit. iii. p. 152 (1896) ; Sharpe, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xxiv. 

 p. 234 (1896) ; Lilford, Col. Fig. Brit. B. pt. xxxiv. (1897). 



Geographical distribution. British: In England the Dotterel is 

 chiefly met with on spring and autumn passage, more frequently in the eastern 

 counties than in the western. A few perhaps may still breed in the Lake District 

 and on the Cheviot Hills. Probably it may have formerly bred on some of the 

 chalk ranges in the south, but if so it has long ceased to do so. It is of very rare 

 occurrence in Wales, but this may probably be owing in a great measure to 

 insufficient observation. It is rarer in Ireland than in England, and is not known 

 to have nested there. Scotland is its headquarters in the British Islands, and 

 there it is said to breed on the hills of Dumfriesshire, on the Grampians in 

 North Perthshire, on the borders of Inverness-shire and in Koss and Banffshire. 

 It has been found nesting on the Orkneys, but only passes the Shetlands on 

 migration. In the west of Scotland it is rare, and has not hitherto been noticed 

 in any of the Outer Hebrides. Foreign : Palaearctic region during the breeding 

 season ; western Palsearctic region and Ethiopian region in winter only. It 

 breeds on the tundras above forest growth across Europe (including Nova Zembla) 

 and Asia ; passes Central Europe (where a few remain to breed on the Alps, in 

 Bohemia, in Transylvania, and further north on the mountains of Scandinavia), 

 West Siberia, Turkestan, and Persia on migration, and winters in Palestine, 

 Egypt, and North-west Africa, although a few remain during that season on the 

 northern shores of the Mediterranean. It is an occasional visitor to the Canaries, 

 and has been recorded from Japan. 



Allied forms. Ochihodromus veredus, a somewhat distantly related and 

 genetically distinct species, which breeds in Mongolia, and winters from Java to 



