240 GRALLATORES. CHARADRIUS. PLOVER. 



brownish-black, the feathers being edged with pale 

 reddish-brown. Eye-streak, cheeks, and throat reddish- 

 white, with a few specks and lines of brown. Neck ash- 

 grey, tinged with pale orange-brown. Breast ash-grey 

 marbled and tinged with pale reddish-brown, and shew- 

 ing an imperfect greyish-white fascia. Belly and abdo- 

 men white, dashed with pale orange-brown. Under 

 tail-coverts reddish-white. Upper parts hair-brown, 

 tinged with grey, each feather being deeply edged with 

 pale orange-brown. Tail deep hair-brown, the two 

 middle feathers being margined, near their tips, with 

 red dish- white, the rest having large white tips, the out- 

 most feather (as in the summer plumage), with its outer 

 web white. 



RINGED PLOVER. 



CHARADRIUS HIATICULA, Linn. 

 PLATE XXXVIII. FIGS. 1, 2. 



Charadrius Hiaticula, Linn. Syst. 1. 253 1 Gmel Syst. 1. 683 Lath. 

 Ind. Orn. 2. 743, sp. 8. but not the PL Enl. 921. of Buffon, and neither of 

 the varieties B. and Y Steph. Shaw's Zool. 11. 470 Flem. Br. Anim. 

 1. 113. sp. 165 Wagkr's Syst. Av. 1. sp. 21. 



Pluvialis torquata minor, Briss. Orn. 5. 63. 8. t. 5. f. 2. 



Pluvier a collier, Buff. Ois. 8. 90 Id. PL Enl. 920. 



Grand Pluvier a collier, Temm. Man. d'Ornith. 2. 539. 



Buntschnubliger regenpfeifer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 414. 



Halsband regenpfeifer, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. Heft 15. 



Sea Lark, Alton's Br. Birds, 1. 1. 80 Will. (Angl.) 310. t. 37. 



Hinged Plover, Br. Zool. 2. No. 211 Arct. Zool. 2. 401 Lath. Syn. 5. 

 201. 8. Lewin's Br. Birds, 5. pi. 184 PulL Cat. Dorset, p. 16 Mont. 



Ornith. Diet. 2. and Sup Bewick's Br. Birds, 1. 1. p. 345 Id. ed. 1826, 



1. t. p. 371 Shaw's Zool. 11. 470 Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 113. sp. 165. 



Dul willy, Rennie's ed. Mont. Ornith. Diet. p. 141. 



PROVINCIAL Ring Dotterel, Sand Lark, Sea Lavrock, Sandy Lavrock, 

 Sandy Loo. 



THIS small and prettily marked Plover is an indigenous 

 species, and is found throughout the year upon all the coasts 

 of Britain, though BEWICK, in his History of British Birds, 

 has inadvertently stated it to be migratory in the northern 

 counties, and only known as a summer resident. This asser- 



