DOTTEREL. 



EUDROMJAS MORINELLUS (Linn.). 



Charadrius morinellus, Linn. S. N. i. p. 254; Naum. vii. 



p. 163 J Hewitson, ii. p. 293. 

 Pluvialis morinellus, Macg. iv. p. 104. 



Eudromias morinellus^ Dresser, vii. p. 507; Yarr. ed. 4^ iii. 

 p. 246. 



Pluvier guinard, French; Bummer Regenpfeifer, Mornell, 

 German. 



The Dotterel is a spring and autumn visitor to many 

 of the counties of England as it passes to and from its 

 breeding-grounds in the higher mountains of the Lake- 

 district and of the Highlands of Scotland. It performs 

 similar migrations in Europe and Western Asia, breed- 

 ing in the north or the high mountains of more southern 

 countries, such as Transylvania and Styria, and spending 

 the winter in the countries bordering the southern 

 shores of the Mediterranean. 



Lord Lilford has given a full account of his own 

 personal knowledge of this interesting bird in his ' Birds 

 of Northamptonshire ' (vol. ii. p. 4). [O. S.] 



