. The sportsman's British bird book . nd India and northern Africa. In Europe the plover may be regarded as in some degree a partialmigrant, passing all the year in the more central parts of its haunts, suchas the British Islands, Germany, etc., but deserting the Mediterraneancountries in summer for the far north, where it breeds in latitudes ashigh as Greenland, Jan Mayen, and Novaia Zemlia. Whether theMediterranean birds pass directly to the extreme north, or whether, 62 PLOVER GROUP as is more probable, there is a gradual shift-up of the members ofthe species, does not appear to be ascertai
. The sportsman's British bird book . nd India and northern Africa. In Europe the plover may be regarded as in some degree a partialmigrant, passing all the year in the more central parts of its haunts, suchas the British Islands, Germany, etc., but deserting the Mediterraneancountries in summer for the far north, where it breeds in latitudes ashigh as Greenland, Jan Mayen, and Novaia Zemlia. Whether theMediterranean birds pass directly to the extreme north, or whether, 62 PLOVER GROUP as is more probable, there is a gradual shift-up of the members ofthe species, does not appear to be ascertained. The plover is only anoccasional straggler into India during winter, where its place is takenby the lesser plover {Cliaradrhis dominiais), which may be seen in flocksin the Bengal snipc-jhils. In the British Islands plover nest in smallnumbers on the high grounds of Devon and Somerset, more numerouslyon those of Wales, Derbyshire, and thence along the Pennine chaininto Scotland, and so on to the Hebrides, Shetlands, and Orkneys ;. PUnKK (). while they also breed on the mountains of Ireland, as well as locallyin lowland bogs. The plover measures i i inches in length. In the summer breeding-plumage the upper-parts of the cock are mottled with golden yellow,black, and white ; white also occurring on the forehead, whence itextends backwards over each eye along the side of the neck andthe upper border of the flank ; the whole of the under side, withthe exception of the under tail-coverts (which are white, as are theaxillarics) being black. In winter, on the other hand, the yellowpredominates above, and the under surface is wholly white. The henin summer usually has somewhat less black on the lower birds in the first pluinage differ from the adults in winter-dress PLOVER 63 merely in being )-ello\ver on the back and in showing more mottlingon the flanks. The chicks in down have a parti-coloured coat oforange-yellow mottled with blackish brown. The weight o
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