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July. But be that as it may, they are common enough during 
the cold weather, and are usually seen in flocks in fallow lands 
and ploughed fields in the neighbourhood of jhils—now feeding 
and now moving about in a body, from one spot to another, 
the whole day long. 
848.—Aigialitis cantiana, Lath. 
The Kentish Ring Plover is common during the cold weather. 
If itis only, as I suppose it is, a winter visitor, it certainly 
does not migrate early, for I have seen it throughout the month 
of April—then in its summer or breeding plumage. It 
frequents the banks of rivers and jhils, and occasionally usar 
plains, but only after they have been well saturated by rain. 
849.—Aigialitis dubia, Scop. 
The Indian Ring Plover is a permanent resident, frequenting 
the same localities as, but in greater numbers than, the last 
species. It is, however, often met with singly or in pairs in 
the most unlikely places ; but, as a rule, it occurs generally in 
small companies of from 10 to 20. 
Though the individual members of a flock keep well apart 
when feeding, they usually all rise when one is disturbed, 
collect together on the wing, and after a deal of whirling to 
and fro settle down only to part again. 
851.—Vanelius vulgaris, Bechst. Native name— 
Saehoor (?) 
The Crested Lapwing or English “ Pee-wit ” is only a cold 
weather visitor, then fairly common, and generally found in 
flocks about jhils and marshes and neighbouring fields, usually 
very wary and difficult to approach. 
852.—Chettusia gregaria, Pali. 
Though mentioned in Captain Irby’s list as “ exceedingly 
common on open sandy plains in January, February and 
March,” and notwithstanding that it is likely enough to occur, 
I have not come across this species, the Black-sided Lapwing. 
From this I conclude that it cannot be common, whatever 
claim it may have to a place in this list. 
853.—Chettusia villotei, Audowin. 
The White-tailed Lapwing is a cold weather visitor, frequent- 
ing the same localities as the Pee-wit, but in much smaller 
flocks, rarely in lotsof more than eight. It would seem to be 
a very quiet bird, and, as a rule, the members of a flock keep 
some yards apart when feeding or at rest, and stand stock- 
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