. Birds in their haunts, by the late C. A. Johns . Kenfish Plover ? 6Golden Plover 6 Grey Plover 6 (Summer and Winter)Ringed Plover, young and 9 t/ace p. 240. THE GOLDEN PLOVER 24 books, might be forgiven for setting down the two forms of thebird as distinct species. In the hUly districts of the north of Europe, Golden Plovers arenumerous, sometimes being, with Ptarmigans, the only birds whichrelieve the soHtude of the desolate wastes. Though numerous inthe same localities, they are not gregarious during spring andsummer, and are remarkable for their fearlessness of man. Sotame, indeed, are th
. Birds in their haunts, by the late C. A. Johns . Kenfish Plover ? 6Golden Plover 6 Grey Plover 6 (Summer and Winter)Ringed Plover, young and 9 t/ace p. 240. THE GOLDEN PLOVER 24 books, might be forgiven for setting down the two forms of thebird as distinct species. In the hUly districts of the north of Europe, Golden Plovers arenumerous, sometimes being, with Ptarmigans, the only birds whichrelieve the soHtude of the desolate wastes. Though numerous inthe same localities, they are not gregarious during spring andsummer, and are remarkable for their fearlessness of man. Sotame, indeed, are they that, in little-frequented places, when dis-turbed by the traveller they will run along the stony ground a fewyards in front of him, then fly a few yards, then stand and stareand run along as before. On such occasions they frequently uttertheir singular cry—the note so often referred to in Sir Walter Scottspoems—^which, like the Nightingales song, is considered simplyplaintive or painfully woe-begone, according to the natural tem-perament
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