204 GREY PLOVER 
‘The poor Ushag-reaisht, shivering :— 
‘“ Teh feer feayr, t’eh feer feayr ! ” 
es It’s very cold, it’s very cold a i 
Some Manx people say that the name ‘ Ushag-reaisht’ is 
applied to some smaller bird, perhaps the Redwing or Snow 
Bunting ; but the story, with its imitation of the Plover’s 
well-known cry, cannot apply to either of these. Mr. 
Moore says that this is also the ‘little red bird of the 
black turf ground,’ in the ballad on pp. 149, 150 of Manz 
Folk-Lore ; but the description seems very inappropriate. 
The species is abundant in Ireland in autumn and 
winter ; it breeds also in many places, and does so both in 
Down and Antrim. In Galloway it is frequent both as a 
resident and migrant. A few breed on the coast mosses 
on the English side of the Solway, but more on the high 
inland moors ; in winter it is sometimes very plentiful. It 
nests in Orkney, Shetland, and the Outer Hebrides. In 
Great Britain the Golden Plover is in summer nearly con- 
fined to Scotland and northern England. 
SQUATAROLA HELVETICA (Linn.). GREY 
PLOVER. 
This species probably visits Castletown Bay regularly in 
small numbers. 
Mr. Adams tells me that specimens were obtained there 
in mid-winter both in 1890 and 1891, and Mr. Unsworth, 
as recorded by Mr. Kermode, has a specimen shot by him 
at Langness from a flock of five in November 1894. Mr. 
Baily has not unfrequently met with it on Langness, 
principally, he tells me, in the very early mornings during 
