CrassIL DOTTREL PLOVER. 
side and the shaft of the first feather is white. 
The tail consists of twelve feathers of a brown 
olive color, barred near their ends with black, 
and tipped with white. ‘The breast and sides 
are of a dull orange color; but immediately 
above that is a line of white, bounded above 
with a very narrow one of black. The belly (in 
the male) is black; the thighs and vent-feathers 
white; the legs yellowish green; the toes dusky. 
The colors of the female in general are dull- 
er; the white over the eye is less; and the 
crown of the head is mottled with brown and 
white; the white lme across the breast is 
wanting; the belly is mixed with black and 
white. he 
These birds are found in Cambridgeshire, 
Lincolnshire, and Derbyshire; on Lincoln- 
heath, and on the moors of Derbyshire, they 
are migratory, appearing there in small flocks 
of eight or ten only in the latter end of April, 
and stay there all May and part of June, dur- 
ing which time they are very fat, and much 
esteemed for their delicate flavor. In the months 
of April and September they are taken on the 
Wiltshire and Berkshire downs: they are also 
found in the beginning of the former month on 
the sea side at MJeales in Lancashire, and con- 
tinue there about three weeks, attending the 
FEMALE. 
PLAGE. 
