386 Charadriadce. 



the shoulders : it also flies very swiftly, but seldom to any great 

 distance. Its cry is, like that of so many other members of this 

 family, wild, mournful, and plaintive. The specific name 

 hiaticula is given by the B.O.U. list as derived from its habit of 

 haunting the mouths of rivers, hiatus; and the generic name 

 jEgialitis (which it has received from some modern ornitho- 

 logists, in lieu of Charadrius), has the meaning of 'belonging 

 to the shore :' but neither of these names seems to me very happy, 

 as they may, with equal propriety, be applied to a large pro- 

 portion of the Order of Waders. In Sussex it bears the pro- 

 vincial name of 'Stone-runner.' Sometimes the cavity in the 

 sand in which it deposits its eggs is lined or covered with a 

 number of small stones about the size of peas, upon which the 

 eggs are laid, and this habit has gained for it in some counties 

 the provincial name of ' Stone-hatch/ * In Norway and Sweden, 

 where it is very common, both on the coast and on the sandy 

 shores of the lakes of the interior, it is known as the Storre 

 Strand-Pipare, or ' Greater Strand-Piper.' It also ascends to 

 very high latitudes, having been found in Lapland and Iceland, 

 and even occasionally in Spitzbergen,t and in Greenland, where 

 it has been known to breed. J 



It is often known in England as the ' Ring Dotterel ' and the 

 ' Sand-lark.' In France it is Grand Pluvier d Collier ; in Italy, 

 Piviere col Collare; and in Germany, Halsband Regenpfeifer ; 

 but by some authors Buntschnabliger Regenpfeifer, ' Plover with 

 Parti-coloured Beak ' : in allusion to the orange-yellow base and 

 black point of the beak of the male in summer dress. In Spain 

 it is known as Anda-rio, 'Stream Rover,' and sometimes as 

 Correplaya, 'Shore-runner'; in Portugal it is Lavadeira, 'Washer.' 



140. LAPWING (Vanellus cristatus). 



Here we have the true Plover of the downs of modern days ; 

 and what Wiltshireman does not know the peculiar call-note of 



Howard Saunders' 4th edition of Yarrell's * British Birds,' vol. iii., p. 258. 

 t Professor Newton in Ibis for 1 865, p. 504. 

 $ Reinhardt in Ibis for 1861, p. 9. 



