. An illustrated manual of British birds . THE DOTTEREL. EuDRoMiAS MORiNELLUS (Linnsus). The Dotterel usually makes its appearance in the southern andeastern counties of England towards the end of April or early inMay, according to the season ; leaving for the south in August orthe beginning of September. It is somewhat partial to the chalk-formation and was formerly abundant along the low hills on theborders of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, on its way to themountains of the Lake district where it has long been known tobreed, although at the present day its numbers are sadly
. An illustrated manual of British birds . THE DOTTEREL. EuDRoMiAS MORiNELLUS (Linnsus). The Dotterel usually makes its appearance in the southern andeastern counties of England towards the end of April or early inMay, according to the season ; leaving for the south in August orthe beginning of September. It is somewhat partial to the chalk-formation and was formerly abundant along the low hills on theborders of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, on its way to themountains of the Lake district where it has long been known tobreed, although at the present day its numbers are sadly decrease is not attributable to the greed of the ornithologist orthe egg-collector, but to the esteem in which its feathers have beenheld by anglers for dressing artificial flies; and still more to theslaughter of the bird for the table on its spring passage—a proceed-ing which has barely been checked by an inefficient and feebly-administered law. On migration the Dotterel often lingers on themarshes—by which I do not mean wet swamp
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