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GRA LLA TORES. CHARA DRIIDM. 



PLATE CCXXIII. 



RING DOTTEREL. 



CHABADRIUS HIATICULA. 



The Ring Dotterel is indigenous in Great Britain, and very 

 generally distributed over the coast and borders of lakes and 

 rivers ; its geographical distribution is far and wide, it is found 

 in every quarter of the globe, from the arctic to the antarctic 

 circle ; in Greenland and in the Sandwich Isles ; the Hudson's 

 Bay, Virginia, Carolina, Jamaica, and the Brazils ; in Siberia 

 and Tartary, in Nubia and the Cape of Good Hope. In 

 Europe it inhabits Scandinavia and Iceland, Spain, Italy, and 

 Greece, and all the intermediate countries, some in greater, 

 some in lesser numbers. In Liefland, Prussia, Denmark, 

 Sweden, Norway, the Baltic, and all the coasts of the northern 

 ocean ; and in Holland it is very numerous. 



In every country the Ring Dotterel frequents the borders 

 of seas, lakes, and rivers, of large and small dimensions ; and 

 we have obtained specimens on the banks of the Thames, 

 near Chertsey, in Surrey. 



Although the present species remains with us the whole 

 year, it is migratory in many countries, passing the summer 

 months in the northern and the winter in the warmer climes. 

 Its migrations are performed during the night, travelling 



