PLOVER. 335 



Dotterel, Gen. Syn.v. 208. Id.Sup.2hS. Br. Zool. ii. No. 210. pi. 73. Id.fol.120. 

 t. D. Id. 1812. ii. 102. pi. 18. f. 2. Arct. Zool. ii. 487. Will. Engl. 309. pi. 

 55. 57. Albin, ii. pi. 02. Bewick, i. pi. in p. 332. Lewin, v. pi. 186. /c/. pi. 

 xxxiv". 2. the egg. Donov. ii. pi. 42. Walcot, ii. pi. 162. P«/<. Dorset, p. 16. 

 Ora. £>*c/. ty Swpp. i?J/m/ Sports, i. t. p. 343. 



LENGTH nine or ten inches ; the weight four ounces or more. 

 Bill black; irides hazel ; forehead dusky and grey mixed; crown 

 black ; over the eye a white streak, which bends a little downwards, 

 and passes to the hindhead; sides of the head and throat white; the 

 neck behind, back, and wings greyish brown, the margins of the 

 feathers pale ferruginous ; lower part of the back and rump inclining 

 to grey ; fore part of the neck cinereous olive, with a little mixture 

 of white next the throat ; the lower part bounded with a line of 

 black, and another of white beneath ; breast and sides pale dull 

 orange ; middle of the belly black ; the lower part and thighs rufous 

 white; greater quills brown, outer edge and shaft of the first white; 

 tail olive brown, near the end a bar of dusky, tip white, the two 

 outer feathers margined with white; legs black. 



The female is a trifle bigger; crown of the head brown, mottled 

 with white ; belly black and white mixed ; and the white trace over 

 the eyes, as well as the colours in general, more dull. 



The Dotterel is a local bird in respect to England, being in some 

 parts sufficiently common, in others not known ; seen in tolerable 

 plenty in Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, and Derbyshire, in April, 

 May, and June; met with on the Wiltshire and Berkshire* Downs, 

 in April and September, in small flocks of eight or ten ; being on 

 their passage to and from the north, where they breed ; the same on 

 the sea side at Meales, in Lancashire, the beginning of April, con- 

 tinuing there for about three weeks ; from thence to Leyton Haws,t 

 where they rest for a fortnight, and at the same time in plenty about 

 Holderness, in Yorkshire, and upon the Woulds.J These birds 



* In August are in plenty in Berkshire, particularly on the estate of Mr. Head, of 

 Hodcutt. f Br. Zool. + Mr Tunstall. 



