THE GOLDEN PLOVEE 



(Gharadrius pluvialis) 



THE Golden Plover is another of those birds that change 

 their haunt according to the season. In winter it loves the 

 lowlands ; the coasts cannot be too flat, and the marshes too 

 wet with salt water, for this pretty bird ; but in summer these 

 places lose all their charm, and it quits them for the high 

 moorlands and mountain sides of the inland districts. 



From the shore 



The Plovers scatter o'er the lieath, 

 And sing their wild notes to the listening waste. 



Few birds are more locally distributed than the Golden 

 Plover, especially in the breeding season; and to study its 

 habits in summer time we must visit once more the brown 

 heathery wastes of the north. These moors are the summer 



