LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. 473 



GRALLATORES. CHARADRHDJE. 



THE LITTLE RINGED PLOVER. 



Charadrius minor. 



Charadrius minor, Little Ringed Plover, JENYNS, Brit. Vert. p. 179. 



Little Ring Dottrel, GOULD, Birds of Europe, pt. xi. 



Petit Pluvier a cottier, TEMM. Man. d'Ornith vol. ii. p. 542. 



OF this rare British Bird, Mr. Gould says, " We are in- 

 debted to our friend Mr. Henry Doubleday of Epping, for 

 the loan of an example of this elegant little Plover, which 

 he informs us was taken at Shoreham in Sussex. From the 

 extreme youth of the specimen transmitted to us, it is clear 

 that it must have been bred on the spot ; and it is worthy 

 of notice that the person who killed it affirms that he has 

 long suspected the present bird to be a resident on that 

 part of the coast, from having remarked that he could 

 always perceive a difference in the note of this bird from 

 that of either of the other species. Whether this Plover 



