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It is included in Professor Ansted's list, but only marked as occurring in Guernsey. There are two specimens in the Museum, both in winter plumage. Indeed, I do not know that it even remains long enough in the Channel Islands to assume, even partially, the black-breast of the breeding plumage, as it so often does in England. GOLDEN PLOVER. Charadrius pluvialis, Linnaeus. French, "Pluvier dore."
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