PLATE XLII. 



Will. Orn. p. 309. pi. 55. 57. 

 Albin. 11. pi. 62. 

 Br. Zool. N° 210. pi. 73. 

 yf^. Zool. p. 487. y£ 



Pluvialis minor, five Morinellus, le petit Pluvier, ou le Guignard.— 



Brif. av. V. 54. tab. 4. jig. 2. 

 Buff. Oif. 8. p. 87. 

 PL enl 832. 



Lappis Lahul. Faun. Suec* 



The Male of this fpecies is about nine inches in length; its weight 

 four ounces; the Female is rather larger, the colours are in general 

 more obfcure, the white {tripe over the eye is narrower, the black on 

 the belly is intermixed with white, and the white line acrofs the breaft 

 is wanting. 



They are found in plenty in fome parts of England, in others are 

 unknown. Are moll: common in Cambridgejhire, Lincoln/hire, and 

 Derbyjhire, about the latter end of Aprils in May and June ; during 

 which time they are very fat, and are much efteemed for their delicate 

 flavour. In April and September they are taken on the TVtlt/hire and 

 Berk/hire downs * : they are alfo feen on the fea fide at Meales, in 

 Lancashire) in April \ where they continue about three weeks; from 

 thence they remove northward to Leyton Haws, where they flay about 

 a fortnight f. It is fuppofed that they breed in the mountains of Cum- 

 berland and Wejimoreland^ as they appear there in May, and are ob- 

 ferved there after the breeding feafon. They breed alfo on feveral of 

 the Highland hills *. Are proverbially ftupid birds, and eafily taken 

 in a net, or mot. 



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