THE GREY PLOVER. 
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was purchased by Dr. J. D. Marshall, but eventually added to 
the collection in the Belfast Museum.* 
The only other specimen in full summer plumage of which I 
have heard was obtained in Dublin bay in June 1848. In 
winter^^ the grey plover is met with there in small numbers,! 
and also on the coast of Wexford, where at the end of January it 
has been remarked as plentiful. J At Waterford it was first 
noticed (by Dr. B. J. Burkitt) in Dec. 1840; and in the “Bauna 
of Cork^^ is characterized as a winter visitant.^ At Youghal, 
in this county, it was well known, though found sparingly. || 
With respect to Kerry, the late Mr. T. B. Neligan of Tralee 
informed me, in the summer of 1837, that the first of these birds 
which he saw there were two, brought in the preceding winter to 
that town. At the sea-coast in its neighbourhood, he himself shot 
one early in May that year, and saw three or four at the end of 
the same month. Mr. E. Chute, writing from that quarter in 
1846, considered the species rather plentiful in winter on the 
coast; and on Nov. 15, 1848, remarked that for the last three 
* This bird is much more handsome thau that described and figured in Mr. Yar- 
rell’s work ; having the white continued from the forehead downwards, so as to 
hound the black of the neck and breast on both sides. The white appears to the 
breadth of an ineh below the anterior base of the folded wing as this rests upon the 
body. This colour terminates about an inch from the fold of the wing, whence black 
spreads, not only from side to side, hut over the body plumage beneath the wings. 
The plumage of the tibise, and of the middle under side of the body from them to 
the tail, is of pure white. Its irides were noted, when recent, as being hazel coloured. 
It is singular, that of the many specimens killed here in autumn, which have come 
under my notice, not one ever exhibited a trace of the summer or black under plum- 
age. They have so occurred to Mr. Selby in Northumberland. 
The following are the dimensions of a grey plover shot at Strangford lough in 
Dec. 1834, and taken previous to its being skinned: — 
Length total 
wing 
7 
11 
bill above 
1 
2 
to rictus 
1 
naked tibia 
0 
9 
tarsus 
J 
1 
11 
middle toe and nail . 
1 
H 
hind toe and nail 
0 
If 
Tail-feathers twelve in number ; bill and legs black. 
In. Lines. 
12 0 
t Montgomery. 
i Poole. 
Ball. 
