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when at the edge of the sea, on the various species of the 

 thinner-skinned Crustacea, as shrimps, sand-hoppers, &c., 

 with which almost every little salt-water pool abounds. 

 The note of this bird is a shrill whistle. 



The Ringed Plover is even more numerous on our shores 

 in winter than it is in summer, partly from those which 

 quit our inland counties for the coast, and probably from 

 the number that come to this country from high northern 

 latitudes, which they visit during the breeding-season. 

 Thus M. Nilsson says they are only seen in Sweden, and 

 on the shores of the Baltic, from March to October. Mr. 

 Hewitson saw them in Norway in summer. Linneus found 

 them in several parts of Lapland during his tour, and as 

 far north and west as the Lapland Alps. They are in- 

 cluded among the Birds of Iceland ; Mr. Scoresby, in his 

 Journal, mentions having seen them on the east coast of 

 Greenland, and our Arctic voyagers observed them on the 

 .west coast of Greenland, at Prince Regent's Inlet, and at 

 Hecla Cove. 



Pennant says it is found in summer in Russia and Siberia. 

 In Germany it lives on the banks of rivers ; it is abundant 

 in Holland on the sea-shore ; and is found in France, 

 Provence, Italy, and Sicily. I have seen specimens from 

 Malta ; and Mr. Fellowes obtained examples in Asia Minor. 

 M. Temminck includes this species among the Birds of 

 Japan. 



The male in summer has the beak black at the point, 

 orange-yellow at the base ; the irides brown ; forehead 

 white, with a black band above it reaching to the eyes 

 on each side ; lore, space under the eyes, and the ear- 

 coverts, black ; top of the head and nape of the neck 

 hair-brown ; below this, and all round the neck a collar 

 of white ; below this a collar of black ; the back, wing- 

 coverts, and tertials, hair -brown ; the wing-coverts tipped 



