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France until the first frosts, and even stay with us during mild winters." Bailly writes : — " This 

 species appears periodically in Switzerland and Savoy, in larger or smaller bands. They 

 remain from October to November, when the cold drives them southward. A few remain during 

 mild winters. They return at the end of February, March, and April, and pass on northward 

 to breed." 



Major Irby tells us that in Southern Spain it is an autumnal migrant in great quantities, and 

 was first seen by him on the 1st of November. Mr. Howard Saunders sends us a note to the 

 effect that considerable flocks are to be found in Southern Spain throughout the winter and early 

 spring, when they retire to their northern breeding-grounds. In Portugal it is also very common 

 in winter. Regarding its occurrence in Malta, Mr. C. A. Wright has written as follows: — 

 " Taken in considerable numbers, and sold at the poulterers' in November, a few generally arriving 

 in October. Appear again in March, but in much more restricted numbers. A few are seen in 

 December and January. The only one I ever saw in summer plumage was shot in May 1861 ; it 

 was very small, and in exceedingly bad condition." Mr. C. F. Tyrwhitt Drake found it common 

 in Tangier and Eastern Morocco ; and Loche calls it " a migrant which appears in Algeria about 

 the end of the autumn and during the month of February." Mr. Osbert Salvin " several times 

 saw flocks of Golden Plover near the city of Tunis in February and the beginning of March." 

 E. Vernon Harcourt includes it in a list of stragglers found in Madeira. Dr. Giglioli records it 

 as " extremely common near Pisa, but only in the winter ;" and Malherbe states that it " winters 

 in Sicily, migrating in spring, and is rarely seen after getting its summer plumage." Lord Lilford 

 says it is " common in severe weather in Corfu and Epirus;" and as regards Greece, Lindermayer 

 observes that it " comes early in the autumn, and remains a few weeks, only a few wintering with 

 us." Captain Sperling gives the following note: — "I have never observed these birds in the 

 Mediterranean during the summer. I extract the following from my notes : — ' November 22nd, 

 1862. Hiding for Duck in the Missolonghi marshes, Grey and Golden Plover and Lapwing 

 arriving in abundance at 11 o'clock at night, soaring and whistling over my head. This is the 

 first time that I have noticed them in any quantities.' " Messrs Elwes and Buckley state that it 

 is "common in Macedonia, and found occasionally both in Epirus and the east of Turkey;" and 

 Mr. Robson tells us that, like the Grey Plover, it is plentiful in Turkey and Asia Minor in winter. 

 In Southern Russia, as stated by Professor von Nordmann, the Golden Plover arrives in March ; 

 and on the return journey, in October and November, flocks visit the steppes on the borders of 

 the Black Sea. A few remain over the winter. Menetries says it is common in the Caucasus. 

 Mr. Keith Abbott procured it in the neighbourhood of Trebizond ; and Messrs. Dickson and 

 Boss write from Erzeroom, " Shot on the 17th November, 1843. Said to be common on the 

 shore to the westward of the town." The Golden Plover has also been set down as an inhabitant 

 of Siberia and other countries to the eastward ; but here its place is taken by the Asiatic Golden 

 Plover (C'.fulvus). Canon Tristram found it very abundant in Palestine during winter; and in 

 Egypt, Captain Shelley says, it is " plentiful at times in some parts of the Delta. Towards the 

 end of February we killed several near Damietta." Dr. von Heuglin also found it in flocks on 

 the Egyptian coast. Mr. Layard includes it in the ' Birds of South Africa,' on Dr. Hartlaub's 

 authority. He states, however, that it has not fallen under his own immediate observation — that 

 he procured it at Lamos, on the east coast ; but he tells us that M. Jules Verreaux informed him 



