202 GOLDEN PLOVER 
seen in Lancashire, and in Cumberland it then congregates 
on the larger lakes. It breeds plentifully in Orkney and 
sparingly in Shetland, and is found also in the Outer 
Hebrides, where it nests, though its distribution there is 
but vaguely indicated. It is well distributed as a British 
species. 
CHARADRIUS PLUVIALIS, Linn. GOLDEN 
PLOVER. 
Manx, *Ushag reeaisht, reaisht, or reeast (M. 8. D. and Cr.) 
=bird of the waste ; *Fedjag (pronounced ‘ Fashag’) reeast 
(Cr. and M.S. D.)=whistler of the waste ; Feddag (M. 8. D.). 
(Cf. Sc. Gaelic, Feadag, Feadag-bhuidhe; Irish, Feudog, 
Feadog, Fidiog.") 
Mr. J. C. Crellin (Y. Z. M., iii. 381) mentions seeing a 
Golden Plover on the Ayre as late as 7th May (1897) and 
adds, ‘I have heard that their nests and young ones have 
been found on the mountains in the north of the island.’ 
It is far from unlikely that a few breed in the Isle of Man, 
but this is the only evidence I have been able to gather, 
and the numbers must be very small. The reports of a 
number of persons familiar with our highlands—sportsmen 
and shepherds — are entirely negative. I have seen a 
specimen, perhaps a. home-breeder, in Castletown Bay on 
7th August.” 
The species is a well-known winter visitor, arriving in 
1 A height in Arbory bears the name of Cronk Fedjag, and another in Michael, 
that of Cronk-ny-Fedjag. 
2 On 23rd August 1797 ‘ Lewthwaite,’ writes Captain Cable, from Balnahow, 
Onchan, ‘. .. brought home two brace of Golden Plover, a Partridge, a Snipe, 
and a fine Rail.’ (Faraday, Manchester Memoirs, vol. xlv. No. 8, p. 30.) 
