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dress. The right-hand figure illustrates the Grey Plover, as -will be seen by the black axillaries, these 

 being white in the Golden Plover, as exhibited by the flying bird on the right hand of the Plate. The 

 full winter plumage of the Grey Plover is illustrated in the Plate of the Eastern Golden Plover. 



The Grey Plover is one of the most cosmopolitan of birds, being met with in almost all parts of 

 the globe at one time or another. Breeding in high northern latitudes, it ranges in winter as far 

 as Australia and Southern Africa, and is also found at that time of the year in the Antilles and 

 Central America. We are unaware whether it occurs in South America, although Lichten- 

 stein gives the locality of his C. ivilsoni, which Drs. Finsch and Hartlaub refer to this species, as 

 Bahia ; but as he states that this place is in North America, we cannot place much confidence in 

 these specimens, uncorroborated as they are by the observations of more recent observers. 



In Great Britain it is more common during the autumnal migration, although specimens, in 

 full breeding-plumage, are often shot in this country in spring. Mr. Stevenson, in his ' Birds of 

 Norfolk,' observes that the " Grey Plover, though, as compared with the Golden, at no time very 

 numerous, visits us regularly in autumn, and usually make their appearance on Breydon and 

 other parts of the coast the first week in October. About the beginning of May these Plovers 

 again make their appearance on their way northward, having at that time nearly completed their 

 full summer dress." In Scotland Messrs. Gray and Anderson state that it is "very sparingly 

 met with on the coasts. It appears to be much commoner in the eastern counties than with us." 

 Mr. P. Collett writes from Norway : — " Breeds here and there on the fells, chiefly in the northern 

 part of the country, where it is found during the summer at Sulitjelma (teste Lovenhjelm), at 

 Nordkyn (Wallengren), and on several occasions in East Finmark (Nordvi). In the southern 

 portions of the country it is generally seen in the autumn, where it is found annually, chiefly in 

 flocks, near Christiania. It has also been shot at Frederikstad, at Christiansand, at Farsund, and 

 in the interior of the country at Mjosen and the Tyrifiord, and may probably breed on the 

 southern fells." Mr. A. Benzon, of Copenhagen, kindly informs us that " this bird, called in 

 Danish ' Strandbrokfugl,' is only found in Denmark in September on migration, for a short 

 time, and is by no means common ; I have on several occasions procured it. I have it also from 

 Greenland. It is very doubtful if it breeds in this country. Amongst eggs of Totanus glareola, 

 from Jutland, I have seen pale, slightly spotted eggs, which may possibly be those of this bird. 

 These are in the possession of Mr. Statsrevisor Fischer, and were figured by Baedeker, in his work, 

 as the eggs of the Grey Plover ; but I do not look upon them as authentic." 



In Germany it is found on the coasts, but during migration is not often seen in the interior 

 of the country ; and Schlegel says that in Holland it is found " on the coast in October and 

 November, and again in May on its northward journey." De Selys Longchamps states that it is 

 common in Belgium on the sea-board during the double migration. In Alsace, according to 

 Krcener, it is " accidental in autumn during passage, is seen more seldom than the Golden 

 Plover." Degland and Gerbe record that it appears periodically in France on the sea-coasts, and 

 in the interior of the country on its double migration. It is found from the middle of May to 

 the middle of July, and in August and September. Messrs. Jaubert and Barthelemy-Lapomme- 

 raye state that in the south of France these birds are found on passage in November and the end 

 of March. Bailly writes : — " Passes through Switzerland and Savoy periodically in the middle of 



