108 P L O V E R .
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+- DOTTEREL.
Charadrius Morinellus, Lin. Sjft. i. p. 249. j .— Faun. Sure. N° 188.—
Brun. N° 185.——Mullert N° 211.
Le petit Pluvier, ou le Guignard, Brif. Orn. v. p. 54. 5. pi. 4. fig. 2.-—
Buf. Oif, viii. p. 87.— PI. Enl. 832.
The Dotterel, Rati Syn. p. 111. A. 4.—Wfill. Orn* p. 309. pL 55. 57.—*
Albin, ii. pi. 62.— Br. Zool. N° 210. pi. 73.— Arft. Zool. p. 487. A.
Lev. Muf.
Description. J ^ E N G T H from nine to. ten inches: weight four ounces.
Bill lefs than an inch long, and black: the forehead is dufky
and grey mixed j the back part of it dull black : over the eye is
a white band, which bends downwards, and pafies to the hind
head : fides of the head, and throat, white: the hind part of the
neck, the back, and wings, greyilh brown, the feathers margined
with pale ferruginous; but thofe of the lower part of the back
and rump incline to grey : fore part of the neck cinereous olive,
mixed with a little white next the throat; the lower part of the
neck is bounded with a line of black, beneath it another o f white:
Female.
the bread: and fides of a pale dull orange: middle of the belly
black; lower part of the belly and thighs rufous white: the
greater quills are brown; the outer edge and lhaft of the fird:
white: tail olive brown; near the end a bar of dulky; the tip
white ; the two outer feathers margined with white: legs black.
The female differs in being a trifle bigger; having the black
on the belly mixed with white, and a white line on the bread;
the white over the eye narrower; and the colour in general more
dull.
Place and
Manners. Thefe birds are common in fome parts of England -, in others
not known. Found in tolerable plenty in Cambridgejhire, Lin-
colnjhire, and Her by/hire. Are migratory, appearing in flocks of
eight
eight or ten, the latter end of April, and ftay all May and June,
■ when they get very fat, and are much efteemed for the table.
In April and September taken on the Wiltjhire and Berkjhire
downs *. in the beginning of the firft month are feen on the fea
fide at Meales in Lancajhire, continuing there about three weeks;
from thence remove northward to Leyton Haws, where they (lay
about a fortnight * ; and at the fame time are in plenty about
Holdernejs, and upon the Torkjhire woulds f . It is very probable
that they breed in the mountains of Cumberland, and Wejlmoreland,
as they appear there in May, and are not obferved there after the
breeding feafon J.
They are common in the northern parts of Europe, where we Peacb.
may fuppofe they like wife breed. Linnaeus fays, that they are
very frequent in Halecarlia, and the Lapland alps; and that they
vifit Sweden in May. Known to brfed ip the northern parts of
RuJJia and Sibiria; appearing fouthward only in their migrations.
They are ftupid birds, and are eafily enticed into a net, or de-
ftroyed by the gun.
Le Guignard d’ Angleterre, Arif. Orn. v. p. 58. 6. 14.
Dottrel, Alibi, ii. pi.'63. V a«. A.
»•pH IS varies little from the lad defcribed. Irides white : the Description,
"*■ crown of the head varied with white, greyilh brown, and
pale yellow : fore part of the neck, bread, belly, fides, and thighs,
pale yellow and white mixed : the two middle tail feathers brown j *
the others white : legs greeniih.
* Br. Zool. • + Mr. Tunjiall.
\ Ten or twelve were fliot on the top of Ski'ddaw, in the month of June laft.
Dr. HejJham.— Breed on feveral of the Highland hills. Flor. Scot.
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