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Identifier: birdsofbritain00bonh (find matches)
Title: Birds of Britain
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bonhote, J. Lewis (John Lewis), 1875-1922 Dresser, Henry Eeles, 1838-1915
Subjects: Birds -- Great Britain
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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he black on the throat and chest isreplaced by white, with pale brownish mottlings across thelatter. Length 11 in.; wing 7*5 in. The young resemble their parents in winter but theyellow is brighter, and there are traces of yellow across thebreast. It is generally distributed throughout these islands,breeding commonly on the moorlands, and becoming muchmore numerous in Scotland. THE LESSER GOLDEN PLOVER Charadrius dominicus, P. L. S. Miiller This species is subdivided into two forms, one of whichis found in Eastern Asia, while the other is an inhabitantof North America. Examples of both these forms have been shot in theUnited Kingdom, although the American form, as might beexpected, has occurred the more frequently of the two. Both these forms may be distinguished from our commonspecies, which they closely resemble, in having the axillariessmoke grey instead of white. Length about 9 in.; wing6-75 in. 304 GOLDEN PLOVER Charadrius pluvialis (left) GREY PLOVER Squatarola helvetica (right)
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Grey PloverGREY PLOVER Squatarola helvetica (Linnaeus) Very similar to the Golden Plover in general appearance,but the yellow spots are replaced by whitish, and the hindtoe is lacking. A few weeks in spring and autumn along theshore is all the time this bird spends with us ; he passes thewinter in the warm tropics of Africa, wandering southwardsas far as the Cape, and then, obeying some mysterious impulseof which we can form no conception, he journeys in Maynorthwards, and passing over many spots, which would toour ignorant eyes afford him food and shelter sufficient forthe rearing of his young, he seeks out the wild and lonelytundras of Europe and Siberia. There during the eternal day of an Arctic summer herears his family, and as soon as they can fly, old and youngare back again on our shores. For some weeks they remain,slowly passing to the south, and, unlike the Golden Plover,rarely coming inland ; but by the middle of October they areall back enjoying once more the burning sun of

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