plover-page, plover's page Sc.
[f. prec. + page n.1]
The dunlin (Tringa alpina), which is said to attend or follow the golden plover; applied also to other species of Tringa, and to the Jack Snipe (Limnocryptes gallinula).
| 1837 R. Dunn Ornith. Orkney & Shetl. 86 Scolopax Gallinula...Plover Page. Jack Snipe. Judcock. 1861 Zoologist XIX. 7342 All the Tringas are called locally ‘plover pages’. 1887 A. C. Smith Birds Wilts. 438 It is..said that a solitary Dunlin will attach itself to a solitary Golden Plover: and this strange notion has extended to the Hebrides, where from its habit of associating with those birds, it is called the ‘Plover's Page’. |