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THE GREY PLOVER. 
of its plaintive monotonous whistle — that cry to which 
Thomson alludes in his opening lines on Spring : — 
Or from the shore 
The Plovers whir, to scatter on the licatli 
And sing their wild notes to the listening waste. 
War ton, describing the natural indications of the first of 
April, says — 
From the grey moor on f(>cl>le wing 
The screaming Plovers idly spring. 
And sometimes the cry of this bird is, in truth, like a 
sin-ill scream, harsh and discordant ; but more commonly it 
is soft and plaintive. Burns speaks of — 
The deep-toned Plover grey, wild whistling on the hill, 
GREY PLOVER. 
The Guey Plover, sometimes called the Black-bellied 
Plover, the Grey Sandpiper, and the Bull-head, is the 
Tringa Squatarola of Linnaeus, and the Pluvlalis Squata- 
rola of Macgillivray and others. It is larger than the 
Golden Plover, and has a stouter bill ; but it is similarly 
formed, and has plumage of much the same tints and 
markings, and undergoing too the same seasonal changes. 
With us this is a somewhat rare species, visiting our coasts 
in Autumn and Spring in small flocks; it keeps pretty 
