GREY PLOVER. 
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Thompson states it to be an autumnal visitant to 
Ireland. There are various authorities for its hav- 
ing' a very extensive distribution, — Algoa Bay,* 
Egypt, f Japan in summer and winter plumage 
Java; || and we have ourselves received specimens 
from China and Southern Africa, in the winter 
dress. 
In summer, the Grey Plover has the forehead 
and streak over the eyes pure white ; the space 
between the eye and the bill, auriculars, sides of 
the neck, breast, and belly, deep black, while the 
vent, under tail-coverts, and thighs, are white ; 
the head and nape hair-brown, the feathers hav- 
ing lighter edges; the back and scapulars very 
deep clove-brown, sometimes nearly black, the 
shafts of the feathers being darkest, the tips edged 
withgreyish-white; quills brownish-black, having 
the shafts white, and the inner webs shaded to 
greyish-white; tail-coverts white, barred with 
hair-brown ; tail also white, barred with dark 
hair-brown, on the centre feathers the pale spaces 
are much clouded with the dark colour, and these 
feathers are accuminatcd, on the outer plumes the 
basal half of the feathers is without bars ; the 
axillary feathers black. In the winter dress, the 
ground colour of the upper part of the body is 
bair-brown, the feathers margined and cut into 
with angular marks of greyish and yellowish- 
white ; no trace of black remains on the face or 
* Dr. Smitli auct. Yarrell. + Selby. 
£ Temminck. || Horsficld. 
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