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Golden Plover. Penn. Br. ZooL 2. 474- Z 2 * 20 %* 



Lath. Gen. Syn. 5, 193. l.—Suppl. 2$Z, 



Brachhennl. ^ Kram. 354. 



Reenter Brachvogel. Frijch* 2. 217. 



Pivier. Aldr. av. 3. 206. 



Piviero verde. Zinan. 102, 



Brok-Fugl. Brun. 187. 



The Golden Plover is found in fraall flocks on our moors and 

 heaths, in the winter feafon ; it is not a common fpecies in this 

 country. It breeds on feveral unfrequented mountains, particularly 

 on thofe of the Ijle of Rum, and the loftier Hebrides * : and on the 

 Grampian, and all the heathy hills of the iflands, and Highlands of 

 Scotland!. 



It is an inhabitant of Sweden, Denmark, Lapland, and other 

 countries towards the frozen ocean ; and according to Ruffel J ex- 

 tends to the fouth as far as Aleppo. 



It lays four eggs, fharply pointed at the lefTer end, two inches 

 and one-eighth in length, of a pale cinereous olive, blotched with 

 blackifh fpots §. 



In fome fpecimens the belly is black, in others black intermixed 

 with white 1; this is entirely owing to the feafon ; early in March 

 the black on the breaft is firft feen, it increafes till that part becomes 

 full black ; but after the time of incubation that colour difappears. 

 Inftead of a hind toe fome have only a fmall claw. 



• Ptanant Br. ZooL f Flor. Scot. I. ^.35. % Ruffel, p. 71. § Lath. Gen. Syn. 



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