PLOVER. 315 



This inhabits the northern parts of Europe, Sweden, Denmark, 

 and the Isle of Oeland,* Iceland, and Greenland ; in the last found, 

 though not in plenty, in all the southern lakes, feeding on molluscae, 

 and buds of black-berried heath; it arrives in spring; and after 

 breeding, retires southward ; is seen also in all the arctic parts of 

 Russia, and Siberia ; is well known in America ; at Hudson's Bay is 

 called the Hawk's Eye.. It comes to New York in May; breeds 

 there, and departs in collected flocks, the end of October. Is pro- 

 bably met with in Guiana, where Bancroft saw it in vast numbers, 

 near the mouths of rivers. The flesh is accounted delicious. 



It appears in Pennsylvania late in April, and seems particularly 

 attached to newly ploughed fields, where it forms a nest of slight 

 materials, ill put together ; the female lays four light olive-coloured 

 eggs, dashed with black, and has frequently two broods in a season ; 

 is very clamorous during breeding time. The young are without the 

 black on the breast and belly till the second year; at first these parts 

 are white, gradually appearing mottled with black, and finally 

 become totally black; which, besides other differences during their 

 progress towards perfection, has occasioned these, as well as others 

 in the same predicament, to be taken for different species. In some 

 parts of America this bird is called Whistling Field Plover, in others 

 Black-bellied Killdeer; it seems much allied to the Golden Plover. 



3.— NOISY PLOVER. 



Charadrius vociferus, Ind. Orn. ii. 742. Lin. i. 253. Gm. Lin. i. 685. Bartr. Trav. 



294. Borowsk. iii. 113. 

 Pluvialis Virginiana torquata, Bris. v. 68. Id. 8vo. ii. 228. Klein, 21. 

 Kildir, Buf. viii. 96. 

 Der Schreyer, Naturf. xiii. s. 217. 

 Der Schreyende Regenpfeifer, Bechst. Deuts. iii. 220. 



* Called there Alwargrim, said to frequent the barren heaths.— Faun. suec. 



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