BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



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IDotterel. 



THE Dotterel (Eudromias morinellus, Linnaeus) is a summer 

 migrant to the British Isles, and is widely distributed through 

 Northern and Central Europe and Western Asia, wintering 

 in Africa north of the Equator. The adult female in summer 

 has the upper parts ashy -brown, edged with paler; inner 

 secondaries, margined with rufous ; crown, blackish ; eye- 

 stripe, broad and white, sloping downward and running 

 backward to the nape; tail, tipped with white, with the 

 exception of rectrices ; chin and upper throat, white ; lower 

 throat, light brown tinged with greyish, with some dark 

 marks intervening ; a white band passes across the chest, 

 which is bordered on the upper side with black; lower 

 breast and flanks, bright chestnut ; abdomen, black ; irides, 

 hazel ; bill, black ; legs and feet, brownish-yellow. Length, 

 about nine inches. The male is less than the female, and 

 duller in colouration. 



