244 CHAKADEIID^E. 



Distribution in the .British Islands. A Winter Visitor and 

 a Bird of Passage from the end of July to May, but a few 

 non-breeding birds remain throughout the summer. It is 

 less numerous in Ireland than in Great Britain, and is rare 

 in the Shetland and Orkney Islands, the Hebrides, and the 

 west coast of Scotland. 



General Distribution. The Grey Plover breeds from 

 Kolguev and the eastern tundras of Arctic Europe, eastwards 

 throughout Arctic Asia to Kamchatka ; also in Arctic North 

 America. In winter it visits southern Africa, Madagascar, 

 southern Asia, Australia, and South America. 



Genus JEGIALITIS J3oie, Isis, 1822, p. 558. 

 Type : ^E m Jiiaticula (Linn.). 



JEgiatitis = alyiaXlrts, of the shore, alyta\6s. 



.ffigialitis hiaticula. RINGED PLOVER. 



Charadrius hiaticula Lmwms, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 150 : 

 Sweden. 



jEgialitis hiaticula (Linn.) ; B. 0. II. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 159; 

 Sharp* Gat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 256; Saunders,. 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 539. 



Hiaticula, Gaza's translation (in 1476) of Aristotle's xapaSpoios (cf.. 

 Charadrius). 



Distrilmtion in tlie British Islands. A Resident, generally 

 distributed along the flat portions of the const ; also breeding 

 in smaller numbers inland, on the shores of lakes and rivers 

 and in sandy warrens and other suitable localities, especially 

 in the Highlands. Two races have been recognised : a larger 

 resident British race, which also occurs on the coasts of 

 France and Holland and arrives from the north in autumn, 

 and a smaller form, which visits our coasts in spring and 

 may perhaps breed in small numbers in Kent and Sussex^ 

 This is, however, still uncertain and requires careful 

 investigation. 



