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GOLDEN PLOVER. 



WHISTLING PLOVER. YELLOW PLOVER. GREEtf PLOVER. 



Charadrius pluvialis, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" Africanus, LlNN.tus. 



Charadrius ? Pluvialis Rainy, pertaining to rain. 



THE name of the Plover is derived from the French Tluvier,' 

 as that again is from the Latin, as assigned as the specific 

 designation of the bird before us. 



It occurs in Europe in Russia, Sweden, Lapland, Norway, 

 Holland, France, Germany, and Sardinia; and visits in summer 

 the Ferroe Islands, Iceland, and Greenland; and towards winter, 

 France, Italy, and Sardinia, and North Africa. It also frequents 

 the regions between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. 



In Yorkshire, they are plentiful in the parish of Nafferton, 

 and all over the wolds; are common also about Sheffield, and 

 the moors about Meltham, where they breed; also on the moors 

 near Barnsley, are occasionally met with on Whin Moor, near 

 Leeds, and in the neighbourhood of Halifax they breed sparingly 

 on the high moors, and are met at Hambleton, and at times 

 in small numbers on the sea-shore in winter. In Cambridgeshire 

 they are common in the fens. In Cornwall also, Gwyllyn Vase, 

 Swanpool, and in other parts. They breed on Dartmoor, 

 Devonshire, as James Dalton, Esq., of Worcester College, 

 Oxford, has informed me. 



In Scotland, they are exceedingly abundant, especially, as 

 might be supposed, in Sutherlandshire, and there about Lairg, 

 Durness, Tongue, and Scourie; also in Forfarshire, and on the 

 Cheviot Hills, and in other suitable situations. In the Hebrides 

 they are likewise vastly abundant, and are plentiful in Shetland 

 and Orkney, where they appear in flocks of thousands. A great 



