Periodical 
visitant. 
236 GRALLATORES. CHARADRIUS.  Dorteret. 
intense in colour, but similar in markings to the winter 
plumage. In the female, the black of the under parts 
and about the head, during the breeding season, is ge- 
nerally marbled with white, and not so intense as in the 
male bird. In spring, when acquiring, and again in 
July when loosing, the nuptial dress, it is found with 
the black or white predominating according to the ad- 
vance it may have made in each respective change. 
DOTTEREL. 
Cuaravrius Morinetwus, Linn. 
PLATE XXXIX.  Fies. 1. and 2. 
Charadrius Morinellus, Linn. Syst. 1. 254. 5.—Gmel. Syst. 1. 686.—Lath. 
Ind. Orn. 3. 746. sp. 17.—Shaw’s Zool. 11. 468.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 
113. sp. 164.—Briss. 5. 54. 5. t. 4. f 2.—Raii Syn. 111. Av 4.—Wagler, 
Syst. Av. sp. 38. 
Charadrius, Tataricus, Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 746. sp. 15. 
Charadrius Sibiricus, Gmel. Syst. 1. 690.—Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 747. sp. 19. 
Le Pluvier Guignard, Buff: Ois. 8. 87.—Id. Pl. Enl. 332.—Temm. Man. 
@Ornith. 2. 537. 
Der Diimme Regenpfeifer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 406. 
Dotterel, Br. Zool. 2. 477. No. 210.—Arct. Zool. 2. 487. A.— Will. (Angl.) 
309.—Albin’s Br. Birds, 2. t. 62.—Lath. Syn. 5. 208. 14.—Bewick’s Br. 
Birds, Ed. 1826. 1. p. t. 269.—Mont. Orn. Dict. 1.—Jd. Sup.—Flem. Br. 
Anim. 1. 113. sp. 164.—Rennie’s Mont. Orn. Dict. 137. 
Dotterel Plover, Shaw’s Zool. 11. 468. 
Tue Dotterel can only be reckoned a cursory visitant at 
the two periods of its migrating flights, viz. in spring, du- 
ring the months of April and May, when on its way to higher 
latitudes for the breeding season, and again in September 
and October, on its return to its winter quarters in the 
warmer parts of Europe and Asia. By some writers, how- 
ever, it has been supposed, that a part of the birds which 
visit Britain in spring remain to breed upon the moors of the 
northern counties of England, and in the Highlands of Scot- 
land. Amongst others, Moyracu and Dr FLEemine seem 
to favour this opinion; the former of whom, in his Ornitho- 
