368 THE PLOVERS. 



as the North Cape itself. Its chief resorts are the higher 

 mountain ranges, far above arboreal vegetation. In the 

 summer one generally meets with it in pairs, but nowhere 

 in any abundance. It is said to be less shy than the golden 

 plover. In Denmark it is common. Migrates. 



This bird makes its nest in a little hole in the ground. 

 The female lays four pear-shaped eggs of a yellow-grey 

 colour, spotted and blotched with brownish-black. The 

 young are fledged by the middle of July. 



The Ringed Plover (Storre Strand-Pipare, or Greater 

 Strand-Piper, Sw. ; C. Hiaticula, Linn.) was in the sum- 

 mer very common with us, or rather on the neighbouring 

 coast. Indeed, few of the islets, with low sandy strands, 

 were without a pair or two of these birds. It is also very 

 common throughout the peninsula, from the south of Sweden 

 to the extremity of northern Lapland. Though it is more 

 plentiful on the coast, it is also found on the sandy shores of 

 the lakes of the interior. M. Boie states, that he once met 

 with it in company with the C. Morinellus on a Norwegian 

 fjall. It is common in Denmark. Migrates. 



The Little Ringed Plover (Mindre Strand-Pipare, or 

 Lesser Strand-Piper, Sw. ; C. minor, Mey.) was rare with 

 us. This bird, according to Nilsson, is found -though some- 

 what sparingly in the southern, central, and more northern 

 parts of Scandinavia, and this as well on the strands of lakes 

 and rivers in the interior, as on the coast ; but he does not 

 seem aware of its limits to the northward. It is not scarce 

 in Denmark. Migrates. 



On the coast of Sodermanland and Upland, where this bird 

 is not uncommon, the fishermen, Ekstrom tells us, call it the 

 Nor danvdders-ty dare or the predicter of a northerly wind 



