166 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



probably Dumfries. As passage-migrant has occurred many 

 localities England and south Scotland and occasionally Wales, but 

 only rare vagrant west and north Scotland, including Orkneys and 

 Shetlands, and twice Flannan Isles (0. Hebrides). In Ireland 

 fourteen times, Munster and Ulster, chiefly autumn, but once (flock 

 of twenty) April. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Breeds in north Scandinavia, Novaya 

 Zemlia, Waigatz, and Arctic Asia (Taimyr, Yenisei, Lena), also in 

 small numbers on the German Riesengebirge (on frontier of Silesia 

 and Bohemia), and in Transylvania. Migratory, wintering in north 

 Africa, Palestine, and Persia. Casual on Canaries and in Japan. 



CHARADRIUS ASIATICUS 



357. Charadrius asiaticus Pall. THE CASPIAN PLOVER. 



CHARADRIUS ASIATICUS Pallas, Reise d. versch. Prov. d. Russ. Reichs, 

 n, p. 715 (1773 S. Tartary). 



itis asiatica (Pallas), Saunders, p. 537. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. Three or four. Male adult shot and 

 another bird seen near Great Yarmouth (Norfolk), May 22, 1890 

 (Saunders, p. 537). A pair shot Romney Marsh (Sussex), July 13, 

 1911 (H. W. Ford-Lindsay, Brit. B., v, p. 115). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Breeds in south-east Russia and through 

 Khirgiz Steppes to salt -steppes of Turkestan. Winters in west 

 India and Africa. 



CHARADRIUS HIATICULA 



358. Charadrius hiaticula hiaticula L. THE RINGED 

 PLOVER. 



CHARADRIUS HIATICULA Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 150 (1758 Europe 



and America. Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Charadrius hiaticula major Seebohm, Hist. Brit. B., in, p. 20 (1885 



Seebohm separated a larger race, supposed to be resident in the British 



Isles, but other ornithologists have not followed him, and the status of 



this race remains very doubtful). 



JEgialitis hiaticula (Linnaeus), Yarrell, in, p. 257 ; Saunders, p. 539. 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Resident. Generally distributed flat 

 coasts, and also a few breed inland as in the Cheviots, west Suffolk, 

 Norfolk, Middlesex, Surrey, and Worcester, on banks of rivers and 

 lakes, warrens, sewage-farms, etc. Immigration noted autumn, 

 when some also emigrate southwards and return spring. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Arctic to central Europe, east to arctic 

 and central Asia, and eastern arctic America. Winters on Mediter- 

 ranean and in Africa, as far south as Cape Colony, casual in 



