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RINGED DOTTEREL. 
BINGED PL0VEE. SAND LABK. SAND LAYEOCK. DELL-WILLY. 
Charadrius hiaticula , 
Pennant. 
Montagu. 
Charadrius —.. 
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Hiaticula —.... 
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This is the first we arrive at of our regular ‘’long shore’ 
birds, and it is to be found on all or nearly all our coasts, 
as also by the margins of creeks, estuaries, and rivers, and 
even at times those of inland lakes and ponds. 
It occurs in Europe—its range extending from Denmark, 
Lapland, Sweden, and Norway, Russia and Siberia to Prussia, 
Holland, France, Germany, and Italy, and so far as Greenland 
and Iceland to the north, and Malta to the south. Likewise 
in Asia, in Asia Minor, and in Japan, according to M. 
Temminck; and in some parts of Africa—Nubia, and the Cape 
of Good Hope. In America also, both north and south, about 
Hudson’s Bay, and in Virginia, Carolina, Jamaica, and the 
Brazils, and in the Sandwich Islands; so that it belongs to 
the four quarters of the globe. 
Mr. Allis says, in his ‘Catalogue of the Birds of Yorkshire,’ 
read before the British Association, that specimens have been 
obtained near Halifax and Sheffield. I have repeatedly 
observed them on the sands south of Burlington. One of 
these birds was shot near the city of Worcester on the 8th. 
of March, 1853. In Dorsetshire I have known them pretty 
plentiful. In Cornwall they are not uncommon. Two were 
seen on the banks of the Isis near Oxford, in March, 1852. 
In Orkney it is an exceedingly common species, and remains 
throughout the year. During winter they may he seen in 
flocks varying from a dozen to some hundreds. 
