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ALWARGRIM PLOVER. 



This is a very common species, being^ found 

 throughout the greater portion of the globe. With 

 us it is found throughout the whole year, and 

 breeds on several of our unfrequented mountains, 

 particularly those of the Scotch islands and the 

 Grampian hills : in the southern parts of this 

 country they are somewhat more scarce, parti- 

 cularly in the county of Kent. They fly in small 

 flocks, and make a shrill whistling noise, by an 

 imitation of which they may be allured within gun- 

 shot. 



ALWARGRIM PLOVER. 

 (Charadrius apricarius.) 



Ch. corporejusco alho luteoque punctato, guld abdomine lineaque 



sub collo nigris, rostro pedibusque cinereis. 

 Plover with a brown body, spotted with white and yellow ; the 



throat, abdomen, and line beneath the neck, black ) the beak 



and feet grey. 



Charadrius apricarius. Linn. Syst. JSIat. 1. 254. 6.^ — Linn. Faun, 

 Suec. 189. — GmeL Syst. Nat. 1. I. 687. — Lath, Ind, Orn, 2. 

 742. 5. — 0. Fabr. Faun. Groen. No. 79. p. 1 14. 



Le Pluvier dore a gorge noire. Btiff'. Ois. 8. 85. 



Pluvier dore, (plumage d'ete.) Temm. Man, d'Orni. 326. 



Black-bellied Plover. Wills. Amer, Orn. 7. 41. pL Ivii. /. 4. 



Alwargrim Plover. Penn. Arct. Zool. 2. Z(^S.—Lath. Gen.Syn. 

 5. 198. 5. 



This, which Temminck asserts is the summer 

 plumage of the preceding species, I am induced to 



