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The encyclopaedia of sport (1897)

Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898, Peek, Hedley, Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918 · London : Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 137

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s 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,… … 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…

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