GOLDEN FLOVEIL
CWTIAID VR ALU, 0 7 THE WCIKNT BRITISH.
WHISTLING PLOVER. YELLOW J'LOVEH. GREEN PLOVER.
Chtuadrius pluviolis, PENNANT. MONTAGU.
Charadritu Afrkanns, LINNAEUS.
Charadriut ? Ptuvitdu—Rainy, pertaining to rain.
THE name of the Plover is derived from the French *Pluvier,' and
that again from the Latin, as assigned as the specific designation of
the bird before us.
It occurs in Europe in Russia, Sweden, Lapland, Norway, Holland,
France, Germany, and Sardinia; and visits in summer the Ferroe Islands,
Iceland, and Greenland; and towards winter, France, Italy, and Sardinia,
and North Africa. It also frequents the regions between the Black Sea
and the Caspian Sea.
I n Yorkshire, they arc plentiful in the parish of Nafferton, and all
over the wolds; are common also about Sheffield, and the moors about
Meltham, where they breed; also on the moors near Barnsley, are
occasionally met with on Whin Moor, near Leeds, and in the neighbourhood
of Halifax they breed sparingly on the high moors, and are
met with at Hambleton, and at times in small numbers on t h e sca-shore
in winter. In Cambridgeshire they are common in the fens. In Cornwall
also, near Gwyllynvasc, Swanpool, and in other parts. They breed
on Dartmoor, Devonshire, as James Dalton, Esq., of Worcester College,
Oxford, has informed me.
I n Scotland, they are exceedingly numerous, especially, as might be
supposed, in Sutherhmdshire, and there about Lairg, Durness, Tongue,
and Scourie, in East Lothian as at Aberlady Bay, etc., also in Forfarshire,
and on the Cheviot Hills, and in other suitable situations. In the
Hebrides, they are likewise vastly abundant, and are plentiful in