. British birds with their nests and eggs . - a good manymore individuals visit our shores than we have any idea of, and should besystematically looked out for, especially on the east coast. Oriental birds, especiallyyoung ones, of species which breed far north, seem not uncommonlj^ to take thewrong turning, and follow the coast westward, instead of eastward, finding them-selves in the end on the west European coast instead of that of Eastern oz C/) HI > O _lQ_ > O 1- < The Grey Plover. 8i Family—CHARADRIID^. Grey Plover. Squatarola helvetica, LlN^N. THE Swiss Plover (wbich of
. British birds with their nests and eggs . - a good manymore individuals visit our shores than we have any idea of, and should besystematically looked out for, especially on the east coast. Oriental birds, especiallyyoung ones, of species which breed far north, seem not uncommonlj^ to take thewrong turning, and follow the coast westward, instead of eastward, finding them-selves in the end on the west European coast instead of that of Eastern oz C/) HI > O _lQ_ > O 1- < The Grey Plover. 8i Family—CHARADRIID^. Grey Plover. Squatarola helvetica, LlN^N. THE Swiss Plover (wbich of course is the nieatiiog of helvetica, thoughthe English version is never used), owes any distinction which may fall toit from this title, to the accidental circumstance that the specimens first describedwere found in Switzerland by Reaumur. It is a bird of very wide range, andmuch better known than its actual numbers in existence warrant. For on ourcoasts, where it is everywhere a feature in its season, I do not think that I eversaw a flock of much more than twenty individuals; while in its not extensivebreeding quarters, though it is a good deal in evidence, the nests are probably amile apart, or more, on an average. It breeds (as far as is known at present) ina comparatively small section of the extreme north, from the island of Kolguievand the mouth of the Petchora (and possibly Novaya Zemlya, but we did not meetwith it there in 1895),
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