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GRALLATORES. CHARADRUD/E. 



PLATE CCXVIII. 



GREY PLOVER. 



SQUATAROLA CINEREA. 



The Grey Plover is chiefly an autumnal visitant with 

 us, although some few remain with us during the year. It 

 is a more northern and north-eastern bird in Europe than 

 the foregoing species. In Iceland and Norway it is unknown, 

 whereas it is frequent in Siberia and the northern provinces 

 of Russia, equally so in North America as far as Hud- 

 son's Bay. Towards autumn it travels southward to pass 

 the winter ; and descends in America as far south as Louis- 

 iana, and in Asia it extends to Java. During its autumnal 

 migration it visits the Baltic, and the shores of the northern 

 ocean through Pomerania, Holstein, and Holland, where 

 it is by no means rare ; its winter quarters in Europe are 

 the south of France, Spain, Italy, Sardinia, and the Grecian 

 Archipelago. 



This species, being chiefly an inhabitant of the sea-shores, 

 is very rarely met with inland, except during its migra- 

 tion in the autumn ; on the west coast of Jutland and the 

 neighbouring islands the birds occur in troops of hundreds 

 during the spring and summer, as late as June, many ap- 



