248 CHARADKIID.i;. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Summer Visitor, 

 nesting sparingly on the mountains ol! the Lake District and 

 reported to have bred in the south-west of Scotland, but more 

 numerous in the Grampians, from the Tay district north- 

 wards, and in some localities to the north o£ the Spey and 

 west of the Great Glen. As a Bird of Passage it occurs in 

 many parts of the south of Scotland and England, and 

 occasionally in Wales, but is rare in the north and west of 

 Scotland and the outlying islands. To Ireland it is a rare 

 visitor, chiefly in autumn. 



General Distribution. — The Dotterel breeds in northern 

 Europe and Siberia, from Scandinavia to the Sea of Okhotsk, 

 and has been found nesting on Novaya Zemlya and Vaigach, 

 also southwards in the highlands of Bohemia, Styria, and 

 Transylvania and possibly in the Kirghiz Steppes and 

 Transbaikalia, Throughout the rest of Europe it is a bird 

 of passage, ranging in winter southwards to north Africa, 

 Syria, and Persia. It is an occasional visitor to the Canary 

 Islands and Japan. 



Genus CHETTTJSIA Bonaparte, Icon. Faun. Ital. Ucc. 

 1839, Introd. [p. 12]. 



Type : C. gregaria (Pall.). 



(Jhettusia, perhaps more correctly Chsetiisia, from x"^^'! ^ mane or crest, 

 though the Sociable Plover has no crest. 



Chettusia gregaria. Sociable Plover, 



Cliaradrius greg-arius Pallas, Reise Russ. Reichs, i. 

 1771, p. 4.56 : S.E. Russia. 



ChEetusia gregaria (Pall.) ; Sharjje, Oat. Birds B. M. xxiv. 1896, 



p. 174. 

 Vanellus gregarius Saimders, Manual, 2ncl ed. 1899, p. 553. 



Gregaria = sociable. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor. It has 

 occurred in Lancashire in autumn, about 1860 ; co. Meath, 

 Aug. 1899 ; six, Kent, May 1907 ; four, Sussex, May 1910. 



