240 GRALLATORES. CHARADRIUS. PLOVER. 
brownish-black, the feathers being edged with pale 
reddish-brown. Eye-streak, cheeks, and throat reddish- 
white, with a few specks and lines of brown. Neck ash- 
grey, tinged with pale orange-brown. Breast ash-grey 
marbled and tinged with pale reddish-brown, and shew- 
ing an imperfect greyish-white fascia. Belly and abdo- 
men white, dashed with pale orange-brown. Under 
tail-coverts reddish-white. Upper parts hair-brown, 
tinged with grey, each feather being deeply edged with 
pale orange-brown. Tail deep hair-brown, the two 
middle feathers being margined, near their tips, with 
reddish-white, the rest having large white tips, the out- 
most feather (as in the summer plumage), with its outer 
web white. 
RINGED PLOVER. 
Cuaravrivs Hrarticuta, Linn. 
PLATE XXXVIII. Fies. 1, 2. 
Charadrius Hiaticula, Linn. Syst. 1. 253 1.—Gyel. Syst. 1. 683.—Lath. 
Ind. Orn. 2. 743, sp. 8. but not the Pl. Enl. 921. of Buffon, and neither of 
the varieties B. and Y.—Steph. Shaw’s Zool. 11. 470.—Flem. Br. Anim. 
1. 113. sp. 165.—Wagler’s Syst. Av. 1. sp. 21. 
Pluvialis torquata minor, Briss. Orn. 5. 63. 8. t. 5. f. 2. 
Pluvier 4 collier, Buff: Ois. 8. 90.—Id. Pl. Enl. 920. 
Grand Pluvier 3 collier, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. 2. 539. 
Buntschnubliger regenpfeifer, Bechst. Naturg. Deut. 4. 414. 
Halsband regenpfeifer, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. 1. Heft 15. 
Sea Lark, Albin’s Br. Birds, 1. t. 80.—Will. (Angl.) 310. t. 37. 
Ringed Plover, Br. Zool. 2, No. 211.—Arct. Zool. 2. 401.—Lath. Syn. 5. 
201. 8.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 5. pl. 184.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 16.—Mont. 
Ornith. Dict. 2. and Sup.—Bewick’s Br. Birds, 1. t. p. 345.—Id. ed. 1826, 
1. t. p. 371.—Shaw’s Zool. 11. 470.—Flem. Br. Anim. 1. 113. sp. 165. 
Dulwilly, Rennie’s ed. Mont. Ornith. Dict. p. 141. 
Provinciat—Ring Dotterel, Sand Lark, Sea Lavrock, Sandy Lavrock, 
Sandy Loo. 
Tunis small and prettily marked Plover is an indigenous 
species, and is found throughout the year upon all the coasts 
of Britain, though Bewrcx, in his History of British Birds, 
has inadvertently stated it to be migratory in the northern 
counties, and only known as a summer resident. 'This asser- 
