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Expedition), South India (Dr. Sclater), Ceylon (Baron Hugel), Nicobar (Novara Exp.), S.-W. 

 Formosa (Sivinhoe), Banka and Ternate (Leyclen Museum), Norfolk Island (Bauer), Brazil 

 (Batterer) ; tarsus 20'" from N. Formosa (Swinhoe), Celebes, Stewart Island (Novara Exp.) ; 

 tarsus 21'", one specimen from Tahiti (Novara Exp.)." As we give in the account of C. fulvus 

 some critical remarks on the distinctions between this species and its American congener, we 

 need not refer to the subject further in the present article. 



Dr. Bernhardt says that C. pluvialis does not occur in Greenland, but that C. virginicus takes 

 its place ; but Dr. Finsch informs us that he has reasons for knowing C. pluvialis breeds in East 

 Greenland. It is very common in Iceland — and is also plentiful in the Faroes, where the late 

 Mr. Wolley found it breeding. In Great Britain, Mr. A. G. More writes, it is " far more abun- 

 dant in the north, and especially in Scotland, but breeds in small numbers in Devon and 

 Somerset, in Pembroke (Mr. Tracy), and doubtless in North Wales, though I have no authority 

 for sub province 18. Mr. Eyton writes that the Golden Plover is said to breed in the mountains 

 above Chirk Castle ; and Mr. O. Salvin has found the nest in Derbyshire. The bird becomes more 

 numerous on the moors from Yorkshire northwards, and is especially well known on all the 

 Highland mountains." Messrs. Gray and Anderson state that it is very abundant in Scotland, 

 and resident all the year, frequenting the moors in summer during the breeding-season, and the 

 sea-shore at low tide in winter. In Cornwall, Mr. Bodd says that it is " generally distributed in 

 the winter months over the open heaths and moors, receives large accessions after severe frosts, 

 when the fallow fields are visited by them ; sometimes observed in March with the black breast 

 and belly partially developed." In speaking of Ireland, Mr. Thompson says that it is common, 

 breeding in the least-frequented bogs throughout that country. 



Kjeerbolling remarks that it is " common in Denmark, breeding there. They arrive in 

 March, and leave in September and October;" and Mr. B. Collett, writing from Christiania, 

 observes that in the interior and south-eastern part of the country it is found breeding only in 

 the willow region on the Fells, and is only seen in the lower portion during migration. Messrs. 

 F. and P. Godman, whose stay at Bodo gave them such opportunities of observation, informs us 

 that " The Golden Plover first appeared on May 1st, when we saw a small flock on the sea- 

 shore in almost full summer plumage. It snowed the whole of the next day, and we saw none 

 for ten days. After this date they were extremely plentiful in the marsh for a short time, when 

 they again disappeared. Throughout the summer a few birds were occasionally to be seen. 

 They probably bred on some of the neighbouring mountains." Fferr A. von Homeyer says that 

 it winters in Pomerania almost every year in places not far from the sea. He saw a flock of 

 eight at Gorlitz, in December 1867. Mr. H. M. Labouchere writes to us as follows: — "This 

 bird breeds on the moors in the southern provinces of Holland, but also visits the other provinces 

 during its autumnal migration." Belgium, says De Selys-Longchamps, it passes regularly in 

 autumn, and again in March or April. De la Fontaine states that in Luxembourg a few remain 

 to breed, and take up their quarters in the marshes of the Ardennes. Krcener says that it 

 appears accidentally in Alsace in winter. 



Degland and Gerbe give the following note : — " Passes regularly through France. In the 

 south its passage in spring commences from the early part of March, and extends into April. 

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