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GREY PLOVER. 



SQUATAROLA CINEREA [Fleming). 



Squatarola cinerea, Fleming, Brit. An. p. Ill (1828). 

 Cliararlrius squatarola, Naitm. vii. p. 24-9, xiii. p. 230. 

 Pluvialis squatarola, Macg. iv. p. 86. 



Squatarola helvetica, Yarr. ed. 4, iii. p. 278; Dresser, vii. 

 p. 455. 



Vanneau-Pluvier, French; Grauer Regenpfeifftr, German; 

 Redoblin, Chorlito plateado, Spanish. 



This beautiful species is only known to me as a bird 

 of passage on the shores of our own islands, of many 

 parts of the INIediterranean, and certain marshy coast- 

 districts of Spain outside of the Straits of Gibraltar. 

 I found it in large numbers on the lower Guadalquivir 

 during the first fortnight of May 1872, consorting with 

 myriads of Knots, and many other waders. Almost 

 all of the specimens then obtained by our party had 

 assumed the full summer plumage represented in the 

 Plate. In general habits the Grey Plover closely 

 resembles the better-known Golden Plover, and con- 

 siderable confusion has been caused amongst English 

 sportsmen in Ireland by the fact that the natives of that 

 island almost invariably apply the term " Grey " to the 

 latter species to distinguish it from the Peewit, which, 

 throughout Ireland, is known as " Green " Plover. In 

 my experience the present species is seldom to be met 



