88 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



144. GLAREOLA TORQUATA, Meyer. Collared 

 Pratincole. 



No recent occurrence. Mr. Yarrell has recorded 

 the capture of one at Branston Hall, near Lincoln, 

 on the 15th of August, 1827*; and Sir. W. Milner, 

 in the ' Zoologist' for 1848 (p. 2023), says that one 

 was killed from a flock of Dotterel on Staxten Wold, 

 near Scarborough, in May 1844. 



145. CHARADRIUS PLTJVIALIS, Linnseus. Golden 

 Plover. 



Very numerous in the winter in the North Lincoln 

 and Holderness marshes, but varying greatly in num- 

 bers according to the season. Were extremely 

 abundant in the wet winters of 1865-66, 1866-67, 

 1868-69 and equally scarce in the severe seasons of 

 1869-70, 1870-71, when they probably went further 

 south. In the autumn, the Golden Plover arrives 

 from the last week in October to the first week in 

 November, although a few small " trips " may be 

 found in the marshes early in October, and occasio- 

 nally in September. The earliest I have ever seen 

 was a single bird, having the black breast of summer, 

 on the 3rd of August f. Golden Plovers generally 

 resort during the daytime to the pasture-lands or 

 young wheat ; at dark they leave the marshes, along 



* British Birds, 2nd edition, vol. ii. p. 444. 

 t In 1871. Three in full summer plumage on the 6th of 

 August in company with some Peewits. 



