232 NATUEAL HISTOEY OF THE GEEY PLOVEE. 



bird; but he possesses specimens from America, as it 

 is said, agreeing with our bird in every particular. 

 This is the Pluvier dore of French authors. 



The third species of the true plover is a foreign 

 one, the C. pluvialis and Virginianus ; a most beau- 

 tiful creature, according to the specimens we have 

 seen of it. 



The Grey Plover (Squatarola cinerea. Tringa 

 squatarola, Linn.). The Grey or Bustard Plover of 

 British authors. This bird is at least twelve inches 

 long, and twenty-four broad ; its weight rather more 

 than that of the golden plover. We have no reason to 

 conclude it to be a summer visitant in England ; but in 

 other parts of the year, and after the breeding season, 

 it is often found assembled together in small packs, 

 although never in the same flocks as the more abun- 

 dant kind, the beautiful golden plover. Thus, we see 

 it on our north-eastern coasts, in the Fern Islands, 

 in the south, and generally on the borders of Scot- 

 land. Its geographical range is greatly more exten- 

 sive. According to different authors, we may place 

 it in the Feroe Islands, Iceland, and Northern Europe, 

 as a summer and winter guest. Dr. Fleming believes 

 that it breeds in Algoa Bay, Egypt, Japan, and Java, 

 and on the highest Kincardine hills. Selby has seen, 

 in June, some birds on the Fern Islands. The poul- 

 terers' shops, in London, exhibit them early in the 

 season : but, in the latter case, they may have already 

 put on their nuptial attire ; in the former, some few 

 birds may have been wounded, and unable to migrate. 



