300 
HINGED DOTTEREL. 
and where they ascend far up the courses of rivers, 
although there they reserve their maritime habits, 
breeding among the pebbles of the sandbeds. They 
are known also to breed in the warrens of Norfolk 
and Suffolk, at a considerable distance from the 
sea*; and we have found them upon the banks of 
various rivers, from ten to twenty miles inland. In 
our own vicinity they perform a short migration, 
breeding, and retiring afterwards. On the banks of 
the Annan, fifteen or sixteen miles from the coast, 
one or two pairs annually take up their station, 
seldom varying far from it. They arrive about the 
same time with the common sandpiper, and are 
sometimes later in retiring. When approached, at 
the season of incubation, they show extreme anxiety, 
fly around, incessantly uttering their piping whistle .; 
if a dog is near, they feign lameness, and flutter off, 
returning to their charge in a circle. At first, when 
leaving the nest, they' skulk away from it before 
taking wing, which they are easily enabled to do 
from their unobtrusive colouring ; and, from the 
eggs, deposited in any slight natural cavity, being 
of a greenish-grey colour, assimilating with the 
shingle, they require great perseverance and an acute 
eye to discover. The range of this species seems to 
be northern Europe, running near to or within the 
Arctic Circle, Asia Minor, t Japan. J We do not, 
however, find it stated as an Indian bird by either 
Elliot or Jerdan. 
* Messrs. Scales and Hoy and. Yarrell. 
+ Fellowes. £ Temmiuck. 
