. The encyclopaedia of sport. t season, and in somenumbers, the Peewit or Lapwing ( Vanelliiscristatiis) is to be found, the two species beingnot unfrequently in company when on theircommon feeding ground, although they separateon rising and fly in different formation. At other times of the year the Peewits comeinland and spread over the cultivated fields andfallows, waste inarsh-land, and unfrequentedbog. The flocks break up into pairs, and laytheir dusky eggs of stone-colour blotched withblack—the dainty plovers eggs of fashion—with scarce any nest, upon the bare ground,with which their colo
. The encyclopaedia of sport. t season, and in somenumbers, the Peewit or Lapwing ( Vanelliiscristatiis) is to be found, the two species beingnot unfrequently in company when on theircommon feeding ground, although they separateon rising and fly in different formation. At other times of the year the Peewits comeinland and spread over the cultivated fields andfallows, waste inarsh-land, and unfrequentedbog. The flocks break up into pairs, and laytheir dusky eggs of stone-colour blotched withblack—the dainty plovers eggs of fashion—with scarce any nest, upon the bare ground,with which their colour harmonises. (See alsoPeewit.) Companions of the Peewit and (lolden Ploveron the dreary mud-flats and along the edges ofthe channels, we find the Ringed Plovers, RingedDotterel or Sand Plovers, as they are termedabroad, of which three species only, out of fiveand twenty or thirty different kinds, are to bemet with in the British Islands.• These are the common Ringed Plover(Aigialitis hiaticiila), to be met with on all. Ringed Plover. parts of the coast, where, on the great stretchesof shingle beach, and amidst the marram grassof the undulating sand-hills, it deposits its fourspotted eggs, which curiously resemble thespeckled stones by which they are surrounded ;the Kentish Plover (^^. avitiana), a local andmuch less numerous species to be found breed-ing on the coasts of Kent and Sussex, and theLittle Ringed Plover (^. aironica) which,as an irregular visitor from Europe, has beenoccasionally met with in England. The Ringed Dotterel of the sea-shore isnot to be confounded with the Dotterel of thehills (yEudroinias nwrinellus), a very differentbird in appearance, as may be seen on com-paring the portraits of both in Yarrells BritishBirds, in which work a full account of theirdifferent habits is given. These may be said to be the typical forms ofPlover which have their representatives all overthe world, and we have now to consider theirparticular status in relation to .spo
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