244 chaeadSiid^. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Winter Visitor and 

 a Bird of Passage from the end o£ July to May, but a few 

 non- breeding birds remain throughout the summer. It is- 

 less numerous in Ireland than in Great Britain, and is rare 

 in the Shetland and Orkney Islands, the Hebrides, and the 

 west coast of IScotland. 



General DistriJmtion. — The Grey Plover breeds from. 

 Kolguev and the eastern tundras of Arctic Europe, eastwards 

 throughout Arctic Asia to Kamchatka ; also in Arctic North 

 America. In winter it visits southern Africa, Madagascar,, 

 southern Asia, Australia, and South America. 



Genus .ffiGIALITIS Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 558. 



Type : ^ K. hiaticula (Linn.). 

 ^gialUis = aiyiaXlris, of the shore, atyiaXos. 



iEgialitis hiaticula. Kinged Plover. 



CMraclrius hiaticula L'nnKrm, Syst. Nat. 1758, p. 150 r 



Sweden. 



iEgialitis hiaticula {Linn.) ; JB. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 159; 

 Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, p. 256; Saunders^ 

 Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 539. 



Hiaticula, Gaza's translation (in 1470) of Aristotle's x^f'^P^'''^ ("f- 

 Charadrius). 



Distrihutlo/i in the British Lilainh. — A Resident, generally 

 distributed along the flat portions of the coast ; also breeding 

 in smaller numbers inland, on the shores of lakes and rivers 

 and in sandy warrens and other suitable localities, especially 

 in the Highlands. Two races have been I'ecognised : a larger 

 resident British race, which also occurs on the coasts of 

 France and Holland and arrives from the north in autumn, 

 and a smaller form, which visits our coasts in spring and 

 may perhaps breed in small numbers in Kent and Sussex.^ 

 This is, however, still uncertain and requires careful 

 investigation. 



