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GREY PLOVER. 
The Grey Plover, So.uatarola cine re a. — 
Tringa squatarola, Linn., Penn., Selbg, etc. — Va- 
nellus melanag aster, Bechst The Greg or Bustard 
Plover of British authors We have no authentic 
record of this species breeding’, or being a resident 
during the summer in our islands.* We have seen 
it early in the season, in the breeding plumage, in 
the London markets, and Mr. Yarrell has remarked 
the same circumstance; neither does it appear 
difficult to obtain specimens in this state from col- 
lectors ; but, we believe, that most of these have 
put on the nuptial dress, and are at the time of their 
capture actually on their migration. Mr. Selby has 
seen one or two occasionally on the Pern Islands 
in June, but adds, they “ may have been unequal 
to the usual migration.”! Their summer abode 
appears to extend very far north, reaching north- 
ern Europe, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands, and, 
on the authority of Captain James Ross and Dr. 
Richardson, extending over many portions of Arctic 
America. Its most usual appearance in Britain 
is in spring, autumn, and winter, and then gene- 
rally on the coast, in small parties ; never, so far 
as we have seen, in the large flocks in which the 
Golden Plovers assemble. We have met with them 
frequently on the Solway, and once shot a pair on 
the banks of one of the lochs at Lochmaben. Mr. 
* Dr. Fleming says, “ he has reason to believe that it breeds 
in the high grounds of Kincardineshire.” 
+ Selby ii. p. 229, note. 
