242 SHORTER-BILLED RUNNING BIRDS. 



ground about the mountain-tops in the Lake District 

 and in Scotland. It appears in the south-east of 

 England in small bands towards the end of April, 

 making its way northward across heaths, pastures, 

 and ploughed lands, whence, after lingering some 

 time, it passes to the high lands. At the nest 

 its habits are precisely those of the better-known 

 Ringed Plover, though the solitude of its breeding- 

 haunts seems to have induced in the Dotterel a lack 

 of wariness. Still, in the breeding season the male 

 keeps his watch, piping his warning note when 

 danger is near. Then the female bird sneaks from 

 the nest, and running to some distance, rises to 

 join the male in quick, circling flight about the 

 intruder. Afterwards both descend near at hand, 

 running wildly about, and standing to watch with 

 bobbing heads, the female at times dragging herself 

 along the ground with depressed tail and drooping 

 wings like a wounded bird. In August the south- 

 ward migration begins, the birds departing in the 

 manner and by the way of their spring arrival. 

 The Dotterel is rarely met on the seashore. The 

 banded chest and chestnut breast are found in con- 

 junction in no other running bird of the Dotterel's 

 size and habits. 



TURNSTONE. Plate 105. 9 inches. Upper 

 parts black and chestnut ; lower back and rump 

 white, latter crossed by a dark band ; tail-feathers 

 white at base, then black, and mostly tipped with 

 white ; wings black and chestnut, with white bars 

 and patches ; head and neck white, but streaked on 



