360 TEN YEARS IS SWEDEN. 



Breeds only up on the northern fells, where they are very 

 common in the summer. The full, number of eggs is in- 

 variably three, dark clay-brown, blotched with black. 



172. C. PLUVIALIS, L. Ljung Pipare. The Grolden Plover. 



D. F. 



Length about 11 in. ; upper parts dusky brown, 

 spotted with yellow. In the spring and summer the 

 under parts and breast are black ; in winter, and in the 

 immature dress, grey, with yellow spots. But at all 

 seasons the long axillary plume under the wing is 

 white ; in the American golden plover always grey. 

 One of the commonest birds on the moors and fells of 

 Scandinavia^ during the summer, right up to the North 

 Cape. 



B. Hind toe rudimentary. 



173. C. HELVETICUS, Bp. Kust Pipare. The Grey Plover. 



D. F. 



Eather larger than the last, which it much resembles 



in the summer dress, but is always lighter in colour, 



and the axillary plume is deep black at all seasons. In 



the winter the plumage is much whiter, and the breast, 



instead of being dark black, is white, with dark spots. 



There is a great mystery regarding the breeding haunts 



of this bird. I have shot the old birds on the southern coast 



of Scania, in August, in nearly full summer dress, as well as 



birds of the year, so that it was reasonable to suppose they 



were bred somewhere on this continent. But I never could 



succeed in procuring the egg here. It certainly does not 



breed at Quickiock, and the egg has never been taken at 



Munioniska either by the collectors of the late Mr. Wolley 



or any one else. Still, for all that, I do believe that it 



breeds on the Scandinavian fells. 



The egg is figured by Morris from a specimen ' ' taken by 

 Mr. Tristram in Finland, 1862." No doubt this is genuine, 

 but it is a great pity he does not give us more particulars of 

 the capture of so rare an egg. 



