262 HANDBOOK OF BRITISH INLAND BIRDS 
regular name, which also refers to its " doting " 
foolishness. It arrives in England in April, and 
is sometimes met with on the hills of the eastern 
part of England, as well as about the sea-shore, 
during its passage northwards at this time. In 
plumage it is greyish-brown above, with a white 
band at the end of the tail-feathers ; the breast 
has a white transverse stripe dividing a greyish- 
brown patch above it from the bright chestnut 
below ; the crown is black, there is a white stripe 
behind the eyes, and a pale patch on the throat. 
The nest is a mere hollow in the moss and lichens 
of the upper parts of the mountains ; the three 
eggs, laid about the beginning of June, are rather 
smaller than the Plover's, with the same family 
appearance, being a more yellowish tinge of olive- 
green in ground colour, spotted and blotched with 
deep sepia-brown. 
GOLDEN PLOVER. 
{Charadrius pluvialis,) 
Whistling Plover. — The Golden Plover is most 
familiar in moorland regions, being but rarely seen 
in low cultivated districts even in winter, when it 
is most numerous. It is to a great extent a winter 
visitor, appearing in large flocks, but it also breeds 
