. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. 539. THE RINGED PLOVER. ^GiALfTis HiATfcoLA (Linnseus). This bird is sometimes called the Ringed Dotterel—a name to be deprecated as having led to confusion with the true Dotterel, while locally it is known as "Stone-hatch" or "; Through- out the British Islands the Ringed Plover is generally distributed along the flat portions of the coast, as well as on sandy warrens and inland lakes at some distance from the sea, and on migration it is also found by the banks of rivers. The birds which are more or
. An illustrated manual of British birds. Birds. 539. THE RINGED PLOVER. ^GiALfTis HiATfcoLA (Linnseus). This bird is sometimes called the Ringed Dotterel—a name to be deprecated as having led to confusion with the true Dotterel, while locally it is known as "Stone-hatch" or "; Through- out the British Islands the Ringed Plover is generally distributed along the flat portions of the coast, as well as on sandy warrens and inland lakes at some distance from the sea, and on migration it is also found by the banks of rivers. The birds which are more or less resident here and on the opposite shores of France and PloUand, as well as those which arrive from the north in autumn, are larger, more bullet-headed, and duller in the colour of the mantle than those which come from the south in spring; but these leave us after a short stay, though a few, perhaps, remain to breed in Kent and Sussex. Many individuals of this smaller race have been erroneously recorded as examples of the next species. In summer the Ringed Plover occurs in Iceland, and it has been found on Jan Mayen, and even on the Seven Islands (lat. 8o°4s'N.), as well as on Spitsbergen. It has also been obtained up to 79° in. 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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