Identifier: cu31924001396625 (find matches)
Title: Birds of Britain
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Bonhote, J. Lewis (John Lewis), 1875-1922 Dresser, H. E. (Henry Eeles), 1838-1915
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: London, A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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bound in such places. Bothparents carefully watch and tend them, flying up on theapproach of danger, while the young squat closely on theground, where they become almost invisible. Their wingsgrow when at the age of five weeks, by which time they arenearly as large as their parents, and are then well ableto take care of themselves and wander away to join theflocks of their own kind, or to amalgamate with other pass-ing wanderers, and add their cries to swell the sounds ofthe shore, which are such a delight to every naturalist. The sexes are alike in plumage. General colour abovepale sandy brown ; below white. Forehead white, succeededby a black band; lores and band across chest black. Legsbright yellow; beak black, yellow at its base. The young resemble the adults, but lack the black bandon the forehead; the chest band is brown concolorouswith the upper parts. The legs olive green. Generally distributed along the shore and in some in-land sandy places throughout the British Isles. 300
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RINGED PLOVER /Egialitis hiaticola Male (right). Young (left) The Little Ringed PloverTHE LITTLE RINGED PLOVER /Egialltis curonlca (J. P. Gmelin) This species breeds in Scandinavia and throughoutEurope, being rather scarcer in the west. To our shores itis only a very occasional straggler, not more than half-a-dozen authenticated instances being known. It resembles the preceding species, but is rather smallerin size, paler in colour, and the bill is narrower, longerin proportion, and wholly black. The best characteristic,however, is that the shafts of all the primaries, except theouter ones, are dusky, whereas in the Kinged Plover theyare all necked with white to form a conspicuous bar whenthe wing is opened. Length 6 5 in.; wing 45 in. THE KENTISH PLOVER /Egialltis cantiana (Latham) As the Ringed Plover is one of our commonest shorebirds, so the present species is one of our rarest, and it willnever be met with unless a special journey is made to thatlonely stretch of shore, which is

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