834 BIRDS OF SOMERSETSHIRE. 



white; legs and toes orange; claws black. The 

 young bird of the year has the white forehead and 

 patch at the back of the eye ; the streak under the 

 eye and the ear- coverts are brown ; there is no black 

 band on the top of the head ; the streak of black 

 under the white at the back of the neck is just 

 hinted at by being a shade or two darker than the 

 back ; there is a light brown patch on each side of 

 the breast, but it is not continuous like the black 

 breast of the adult, the centre of the breast being 

 dull dirty white ; the beak is black ; the legs and 

 toes pale yellow. I have in my collection one very 

 young King Dotterel which was picked up alive at 

 Watchet : it is in its down plumage ; the top of the 

 head and the back are a sort of brindle yellowish 

 and dark brown ; all the rest dull white. 



The egg, which is very large for the size of the 

 bird and pear-shaped, is a pale yellowish drab, much 

 spotted with very dark brown and dull dusky. 



GREY PLOVER, Squatarola cinerea. This bird, 

 which differs from the true Plovers in having a hind 

 toe, small and rudimentary though it is, is a much 

 more decided shore-bird than the Golden Plover, 

 always feeding on the mud and ooze of the sea-shore 

 or of some tidal river, but rarely if ever having resort 

 to inland feeding-grounds. It is by no means such 

 good eating as the Golden Plover, in consequence 

 probably of the different locality in which it seeks 

 its food. It is a rather numerous winter visitor to 



