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March and commencement of April, at the same time as the Golden Plover and Lapwing ; passes 

 also southward in the autumn." Mr. Howard Saunders sends us the following note: — "This 

 species is abundant on the autumn and spring migrations through southern Spain ; but during the 

 winter months I found but few in the markets, and the majority evidently proceed further south. 

 I obtained individuals with full black breasts as late as the 17th, at Malaga, and birds of the 

 previous year on the 23rd of May." Major Irby also writes to us : — " In Andalusia I have found 

 this species an autumnal migrant ; but it occurs on the coast occasionally in winter. The first 

 seen was on the 9th of November, and the last on the 22nd of May, when I shot a pair near 

 Gibraltar, the male far advanced and, indeed, in nearly perfect breeding-plumage, the female 

 being not in quite such a forward state." Mr. Tyrwhitt Drake found it in Morocco ; and Loche 

 says that it is only accidental, during migration, on the coasts of Algeria. Bolle procured it in 

 the Canary Islands in winter. In Italy and Sicily it is also a passing migrant ; and Lord Lilford 

 observes : — " I occasionally saw this species in Corfu and Epirus in January, February, and March 

 1857. Some specimens, killed in the island in the latter month, were in full breeding-plumage. 

 I never saw the Grey Plover in large troops, but almost invariably in pairs, or small parties of 

 four or five individuals." 



Lindermayer says that it " arrives in autumn ; and a few winter in Greece, leaving again early in 

 March. Von der Miihle agrees with the above, and remarks that he has seen birds there in May 

 in nearly full breeding-plumage. Mr. Robson says that in Turkey and Asia Minor they are not 

 uncommon, many specimens being shot in the autumn by sportsmen for the table ; several stay 

 over the winter. Canon Tristram records it as a " winter visitant to Palestine, where it is found 

 in thousands in the plains and cultivated lands." Von Nordmann says that is very common in 

 spring and summer in the provinces of New Russia, where, however, it does not winter. 



Lehmann, during his journey to Bokhara, procured a single specimen from the Caspian 

 steppe. Pallas states that it occurs all over Siberia. Von Middendorff observed it " breeding both 

 in the Byrranga mountains (74° N. lat.), and also on the Boganida (71° N. lat.), although much 

 rarer than the Golden Plover; and Radde found a pair near the Onon in September 1856, and 

 von Kittliz met with it in Kamschatka. Mr. Swinhoe states that it is a winter visitant to the 

 coasts of China and Formosa from the north. He also writes, " a specimen of the Grey Plover 

 was shot on the mud of the Hungpe lagoon in West Hainan on the 30th of March." The same 

 author, writing on the ' Birds of Northern Japan,' observes : — " Included in Cassin's list ; but he 

 surely must refer to the allied form C. mongolicus, Pall., though Cassin appears rather positive as 

 to its identity :" there can be no doubt, however, that the bird visits Japan, as it was procured there 

 by Siebold. Dr. Jerdon, in his ' Birds of India,' gives the following note : — " The Grey Plover is 

 found occasionally throughout India in the cold season, chiefly, perhaps, near the sea-coast and in 

 the north of India. I have obtained it from the Madras market, and seen it north-east of 

 Calcutta on the banks of large rivers. It associates in moderate-sized flocks, and is somewhat 

 wary." It is distributed throughout Malasia, having been obtained in Java by Horsfield, while 

 the Leyden Museum contains examples from Borneo, Timor, Gilolo, and New Guinea. According 

 to Mr. Gould it occurs both in Eastern and Western Australia. 



In Africa it only occurs as a winter visitant. Captain Shelley has several examples procured 

 in Egypt ; and Lichtenstein records a specimen from Arabia. Petherick obtained it in Kordofan ; 



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