16 BRITISH BIRDS. 



CHARADRIUS MINOR. 

 LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. 



(PLATE 26.) 



Charadrius dubius, Scop. Del. Flor. et Faun. Iiisubr. p. 93 (1786, ex Sonnerat). 



Cliaradrius erythropus, Gmel. Syst. Nut. i. p. 684 (1788, ex Sonnerat). 



Charadrius curonicus, Gmel. Syst. Nat. i. p. 692 (1788, ex Beseke). 



Charadrius philippinus, Lath. Lid. Orn. ii. p. 745 (1790, ex Sonneraf). 



Charadrius minor, Wolf fy Meyer, Vog. Deutschl. i. p. 182 (1805) ; et auctorum 

 plurimorum Temminck, Naurnann, (Bonaparte), Lichtenstein, (Reichenbach), 

 (Brehm), (Nordmann), (Kriiper), (Homey er), (Severtzow) , (Durnford), (Ruppelf), 

 (Brooke}, (Harting), (Sounders), Macgillivray, Gould, Nilsson, Dawson Rowley, 

 LUford, Wright, (Salviri), (Tristram), (Giglioli), (Swinhoe), (SJielley), &c. 



Charadrius fluviatilis, Bechst. Naturg. Deutschl. iv. p. 422 (1809). 



Charadrius pusillus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 187 (1822). 



^Egialitis minor ( Wolf fy Meyer), Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 558. 



Charadrius minutus, Pall. Zoogr. Rosso-Asiat. ii. p. 144 (1826). 



Charadrius hiaticuloides, Frankl. Proc. Zool. Soc. 1831, p. 125. 



Charadrius intermedius, Menetr. Cat. Rais. Cauc. p. 53 (1832). 



Charadrius zonatus, Swains. JB. of W. Afr. ii. p. 235, pi. 25 (1837). 



^Egialitis curonicus (Gmel.), Keys. u. Bias. Wirb. Eur. p. Ixxi (1840). 



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Hiaticula curonica (Gmel.),\ T . . , T 1 . . ,-. Q ~,^ 

 " \ Licht. Nomencl. Av. p. 94 (1854). 

 ? Hiaticula simplex, 



^Egialites zonatus (Sivains.), Hartl. Orn. W.-Afr. p. 216 (1857). 

 ^Egialites pusillus (Horsf.), Swinhoe, Ibis, 1860, p. 63. 

 ^Egialites philippinus (Lath.), Swinhoe, Ibis, 1861, p. 342. 

 ^Egialitis minutus (Pall.), Jerdon, B. India, ii. p. 641 (1864). 

 Pluvialis fluviatilis (Bechst.), Droste, Vog. Borkum, p. 153 (1869). 

 ^Egialitis microrhynchus, Ridgw. Am. Nat. viii. p. 109 (1874). 



The Little Ringed Plover is a very rare straggler to England, and 

 has not hitherto been detected in Scotland or Ireland. Many of the 

 reported instances of its capture in this country are based on erroneous 

 identification, the small form of the Ringed Plover, in most cases, having 

 been mistaken for the rarer bird. It is difficult to give the exact number 

 of Little Ringed Plovers that have been obtained in England, but probably 

 they do not exceed half a dozen. The first example appears to have been 

 obtained at Shoreham, in Sussex, by Mr. Henry Doubleday, who lent the 

 specimen to Mr. Gould, by whom it was recorded in his ' Birds of Europe/ 

 Another example was shot at Trescoe, in the Scilly Islands, on the 23rd 

 of October, 1863 (Rodd, Zoologist, 1863, p.. 8847). A third was shot by 

 Mr. Harting, at Kingsbury Reservoir, in Middlesex, on the 30th of August, 

 1864 (Harting, Zoologist, 1864, p. 9283). A fourth is in Mr. Borrer's 

 collection, which was shot in May at Chichester Harbour, but the exact 



