Identifier: cu31924000050082 (find matches)
Title: British birds with their nests and eggs
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner), 1844-1925 Frohawk, Frederick William, 1861-1946
Subjects: Birds Birds
Publisher: London, Brumby & Clarke
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ined inHeligoland; see Gatke, Heligoland, etc., p. 476), was shot on the sanddunes near Great Yarmouth, on May 22nd, 1890, and is now in the NorwichMuseum. This species may be distinguished from all the other species of Aigialitiswhich have occurred on our shores, by the chestnut pectoral band of the adultbird, (dusky brown-grey in young birds, but always with indications of chestnutmixed with the grey), brown head, with no black on it, and long legs, (tarsusi6 inches), which are yellow in adults, pinkish in young birds.. It breeds on the Kirghiz Steppes and in Central Asia, (see Dresser, P.Z.S.1875, p. 97), and passes through S.B. Europe on migration, wintering in EasternAfrica and India. Family— CHAR ADR IIDM, Kentish Plover. y^gia/itis cajitiaita, LaTH. This bird gets its specific name and the Latin form of it, Cavtiana^ fromhaving been described first by Latham, from specimens killed near Sand-wich, in Kent, in 1787. As has already been suggested, local names are misleading; cxd
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UJN ui o -1 CL Xin Hz UJ The Kentish Plover. ^^ in the present case this is so, for the bird is of wide distribution, and muchcommoner in many other places than in Kent. A summer visitor to South and South-east England, Southern Sweden,Norway (once recorded only), Denmark, Holland, Belgium, and France. In Spain,Portugal, and on all the Mediterranean shores, it is resident, breeding on sea-shoresand salt-water lakes inland; extending in winter to the extreme south of Africa.It frequents the Black, Caspian, and Aral Seas in Summer, and all salt-water lakesin Central Asia, as far east as Mongolia, going southwards to Japan, China, India,and Indo-Malaya (e.£., Borneo, Everett) in winter. Two Oriental species or races(^g. dealbatus, Swinhoe, with pale legs and feet; and yS. peronii, Miiller, alsowith pale legs and feet and a black nuchal collar) have caused some confusion indetermining exactly the winter quarters of our bird in the east. Very rare inIreland. Colour of adult ma

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