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General Distribution. — The Ringed Plover breeds in eastern 

 Arctic America, Greenland, northern and central Europe, 

 and Asia, as far east as Lake Baikal ; its breeding-range also 

 extends to Iceland, Jan Mayen, Kolguev, Spitsbergen, and 

 Novaya Zemlya. In winter it is found in the Mediterranean 

 basin and ranges as far south as Cape Colony and occasionally 

 to north-west India. It has been obtained in Chile and 

 Barbados, 



.Slgialitis alexandrina. Kentish Plover. 

 Charadrius alexandrinus Linmrus, Syst. Nat. 1758^ 



p. 150 : Egypt. 



iEgialitis cantiana (Lath.); B. O. U. List, 1st eel. 1883, p. 158; 



Saunders, Manual, 2ncl ed. 1899, p. .543. 

 iEgialitis alexandrina (Linn.) ; SJtarjje, Cat. Birds £. M. xxiv. 



1896, p. 275. 



Alexandrinus = of Alexandria in Egypt, whence came Hasselquist's type. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A regular Sumuitir 

 "Visitor, breeding locally on the coasts of Kent and Sussex. 

 Elsewhere on the south and east coasts of England it rarely 

 occurs as far north as Durham and as far west as Devonshire 

 and Cornwall, but has been observed once in Cheshire. 

 In Ireland it has occurred a few times, but has not been 

 noticed there since 1852. 



General Distribution. — The Kentish Plover breeds in 

 Europe and Asia, ranging from Spain to southern Sweden, 

 and eastwards throughout the ^Mediterranean basin to the 

 Black and Caspian seas ; also across central Asia to Koreaj 

 ■(Jhina, and Japan. It is resident in north Africa, the 

 Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, and the Cape Verde 

 group. In winter it is found in Africa as far south as Cape 

 Oolony ; also in India and Ceylon (where it occasionally 

 breeds), the Malay Peninsula, and Borneo. Various races 

 have been recoanised. 



