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RINGED DOTTEREL. 



RINGED PLOYER. SA2JD LARK. SAND LAYROCK. DULL-WILLY. 



Charadrius hiaiicula, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Charadrius ? JJiaticu/a ? 



THIS is the first we arrive at of our regular ''long shore' 

 birds, and it is to be found on all or nearly all our* coasts, 

 as also by the margins of creeks, estuaries, and rivers, and 

 even at times those of inland lakes and ponds. 



It occurs in Europe its range extending from Denmark, 

 Lapland, Sweden, and Norway, Russia and Siberia to Prussia, 

 Holland, France, Germany, and Italy, and so far as Greenland 

 and Iceland ' to the north, and Malta to the south. Likewise 

 in Asia, in Asia Minor, and in Japan, according to M. 

 Temminck ; and in some parts of Africa Nubia, and the Cape 

 of Good Hope. In America also, both north and south, about 

 Hudson's Bay, and in Virginia, Carolina, Jamaica, and the 

 Brazils, and in the Sandwich Islands; so that it belongs to 

 the four quarters of the globe. 



Mr. Allis says, in his 'Catalogue of the Birds of Yorkshire,' 

 read before the British Association, that specimens have been 

 obtained near Halifax and Sheffield. I have repeatedly 

 observed them on the sands south of Burlington. One of 

 these birds was shot near the city of Worcester on the 8th. 

 of March, 1853. In Dorsetshire I have known them pretty 

 plentiful. In Cornwall they are not uncommon. Two were 

 seen on the banks of the Isis near Oxford, in March, 1852. 



In Orkney it is an exceedingly common species, and remains 

 throughout the year. During winter they may be seen in 

 nocks varying from a dozen to some hundreds. 



