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GREY PLOVER. 



GEET SANDPIPEE. 



Squatarola tinert.a, FLEMING. SELBY. GOULD. 



Vaiidlus grisevs, JENYNS. 



" 'nielaHoqaster, TEMMINCK. 



Trivga sguatarola, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Squaiurola ? Cinerea Ash-coloured. 



THIS Plover is found in the north and north-east of 

 Russia and Siberia; plentiful in Holland, and also in the 

 Ferroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland, Sweden, Jutland, Holstein; 

 in Pomerania, while shifting its quarters, and then in France, 

 Italy, Spain, Sardinia, and the Grecian Archipelago. It occurs 

 in the corresponding part of North America in the Fur 

 countries and to the extreme north, and so far south as 

 Pennsylvania. Likewise in Africa in Egypt; and in Asia, 

 M. Temminck says, in Japan, Sunda, and New Guinea; and 

 Dr. Horsfield, in Java. It is observed, however, that these 

 birds, as also others obtained from the south of Africa, do 

 not put on the characteristic summer dress, so that I can 

 hardly think that they can be of the same species, though 

 doubtless closely allied. 



It occurs in England from the north to the south. 



In Yorkshire, it is met with in the winter, on the coast, 

 and also inland, occasionally, near Sheffield, Halifax, Barnsley, 

 and other places. A pair were seen by the Messrs, Tuke, on 

 Hambleton, in the month of Jure, which no doubt had a 

 nest near, for they would not leave the place, though watched 

 for several hours. They are met with on the Wolds in the 

 autumn. In Norfolk they are not uncommon in the same 



