SOCIABLE LAPWING.
VANELLUS GREGARIUS {Pall.).
Charadrius gregarius, Pallas, Reise, i. p. 456.
Vanellus gregarius, C. L. Brehm, Yogelf. p. 285; Seebohm,
P. Z. S. 1888, p. 416.
Chettusia gregaria, Dresser, vii. p. 527; Saunders, Man.
Br. B. p. 537.
One occurrence. A young bird was shot between
1860-1866 by a farmer out of a flock of Peewits, about
two miles from St. Michael’s on Wyre, Lancashire. Por
many years it passed as a Cream-coloured Courser,
until its owner, Mr. Doeg of Manchester, sent it to
Seebohm, who, recognizing the species to which it
belonged, exhibited it at a meeting of the Zoological
Society held 20th November, 1888.
A few stray occurrences of this Plover are recorded
from Central Europe, Southern Prance, Italy, and
elsewhere; but its home is South-eastern Russia, Southwestern
and Central Asia, whence it migrates south in
winter to North-eastern Africa, Arabia, India, and
Ceylon. [O. S.]
SOCIABLE LA PW IN G .
Vanellus gregarius fPall.).
