. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRIID^. SS3. â THE SOCIABLE PLOVER. Van^llus gregArius (Pallas). In the autumn of the year i860 or thereabouts, an immature example of this south-eastern species was shot from among a flock of Lapwings, near St. Michael's-on-Wyre in Lancashire; and having been subsequently placed in a case with many other stuffed birds which impeded the view, it was at first erroneously recorded as a Cream-coloured Courser. It afterwards came into the possession of Mr. W. H. Doeg, when it was correctly identified, and was ex- hibited by the late Mr.
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. CHARADRIID^. SS3. â THE SOCIABLE PLOVER. Van^llus gregArius (Pallas). In the autumn of the year i860 or thereabouts, an immature example of this south-eastern species was shot from among a flock of Lapwings, near St. Michael's-on-Wyre in Lancashire; and having been subsequently placed in a case with many other stuffed birds which impeded the view, it was at first erroneously recorded as a Cream-coloured Courser. It afterwards came into the possession of Mr. W. H. Doeg, when it was correctly identified, and was ex- hibited by the late Mr. Seebohm at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London on November 20th 1888. Its pedigree appears to be perfectly satisfactory. The Sociable Plover has not yet been observed in Heligoland or the northern part of Western Europe, but as long ago as March 1838 an adult (figured by Bonaparte) was shot near Rome, where a young female was obtained in November 1872, while a third example was killed near Sienna in the spring of 1856. On the Riviera an adult male was taken near Nice in April 1883. At Cadiz, in February 1868, I found in the market a birdâtoo advanced for preservationâin the plumage of the first year, a stage then little. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Saunders, Howard, 1835-1907. London, Gurney and Jackson
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