20 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Britain, but it sometimes appears in large flocks on 

 the sea coasts: it is somewhat larger than the 

 Golden Plover. Its flesh is said to be very delicate. 

 Montagu pronounces the Grey Plover to be the 

 Grey Sandpiper in the winter plumage, and he 

 doubts not the Tringa Helvetica, or Swiss Sand- 

 piper, is the same bird in the breeding plumage. 

 Latham also seems to be of this opinion. Our 

 figure represents a bird of the first year. 



