SOCIABLE LAPWING. 



VANELLUS GREGARIUS {Pall.). 



Charadrius gregarius, Pallas, Reise^ i. p. 456. 



Vanellus gregarius, C. L. Brehm, Vogelf. p. 285 ; Seebohm, 



P. Z. S. 1888, p. 416. 

 Chettusia gregaria, Dresser, vii. p. 537; Saunders, Man. 



Br. B. p. 537. 



One occurrence. A young bird was shot between 

 1860-1866 by a farmer out of a flock of Peewits, about 

 two miles from St. Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire. For 

 many years it passed as a Cream-coloured Courser, 

 until its owner, Mr. Doeg of Manchester, sent it to 

 Seebohm, who, recognizing the species to which it 

 belonged, exhibited it at a meeting of the Zoological 

 Society held 20th November, 1888. 



A few stray occurrences of this Plover are recorded 

 from Central Europe, Southern France, Italy, and 

 elsewhere ; but its home is South-eastern Russia, South- 

 western and Central Asia, whence it migrates south in 

 winter to North-eastern Africa, Arabia, India, and 

 Ceylon. [O. S.] 



