236 GRALLATORES. CHARADRIUS. DOTTEREL. 



intense in colour, but similar in markings to the winter 

 plumage. In the female, the black of the under parts 

 and about the head, during the breeding season, is ge- 

 nerally marbled with white, and not so intense as in the 

 male bird. In spring, when acquiring, and again in 

 July when loosing, the nuptial dress, it is found with 

 the black or white predominating according to the ad- 

 vance it may have made in each respective change. 



DOTTEREL. 



CHARADRIUS MORINELLUS, Linn. 

 PLATE XXXIX. FIGS. 1. and 2. 



Charadrius Morinellus, Linn. Syst. 1. 254. 5.Gmel. Syst. 1. 686 Lath. 



Ind. Orn. 3. 746. sp. 17 Shaw's Zool. 11. 468 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 



113. sp. 164 __ Biiss. 5. 54. 5. t. 4. f. 2 __ Rail Syn. 111. A. 4 Wagler, 



Syst. Av. sp. 38. 



Charadriu^ Tataricus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 746. sp. 1 5. 

 Charadrius Sibiricus, Gmel Syst. 1. 690. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 747- sp. 19. 

 Le Pluvier Guignard, Buff. Ois. 8. 87 Id. PI. Enl. 332 Temm. Man. 



d'Ornith. 2. 537, 



Der Diimme Regenpfeifer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 406. 

 Dotterel, Br. Zool. 2. 477. No. 210 Arct. Zool. 2. 487. A Will. (Angl.) 



309. Albinos Br. Birds, 2. t. 62 __ Lath. Syn. 5. 208. 14 __ Bewick's Br. 



Birds, Ed. 1826. t. p. t. 269 __ Mont. Orn. Diet. 1 Id. Sup Flem. Br. 



Anim. 1. 113. sp. 164 Rennie's Mont. Orn. Diet. 137. 

 Dotterel Plover, Shaw's Zool. 11. 468. 



Periodical ^ HE Dotterel can only be reckoned a cursory visitant at 

 visitant, the two periods of its migrating flights, viz. in spring, du- 

 ring the months of April and May, when on its way to higher 

 latitudes for the breeding season, and again in September 

 and October, on its return to its winter quarters in the 

 warmer parts of Europe and Asia. By some writers, how- 

 ever, it has been supposed, that a part of the birds whicli 

 visit Britain in spring remain to breed upon the moors of the 

 northern counties of England, and in the Highlands of Scot- 

 land. Amongst others, MONTAGU and Dr FLEMING seem 

 to favour this opinion ; the former of whom, in his Ornitho- 



