...Should he wish to land, it is merely because he has seen a large flight of landrails or plovers, of wild ducks, teal, widgeon, or woodchucks, which fall an easy pray to net or gun... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「The Man in the Iron Mask」
...Hares, antelopes,woodcocks, snipes, plovers, bustards...
Abd Salam Shabeeny 「An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa」
...As soon as the falling tideexposed the reef round the island, Reef Herons, Gulls, Plovers,Dottrels, and Terns, went out to have their next meal...
John Albert Leach 「An Australian Bird Book」
...Two years in succession have I seen men, old and young, murderingsandpipers and plovers at wholesale for the mere fun of doing it...
Bradford Torrey 「The Foot-path Way」
...This habit is not peculiar to Plovers,but may be noticed in the case of several of the sea-side waders,as Dunlins and Sanderlings...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...The note is a shrill wick!They arrive on our shores early in autumn, keeping together insmall flocks, or joining the company of Dunlins, or Ringed Plovers...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...' The same author describes a nest, whichhe found in the island of Harris, as very like those of the Goldenand Lapwing Plovers, with four eggs, intermediate in size betweenthe eggs of these two birds...
Rev. C. A. Johns 「British Birds in their Haunts」
...It lives upon smaller birds and animals: hares,young lambs and deer, grouse, plovers, &c...
Various 「Natural History in Anecdote」
...Duringthe evening also some plovers flew over us, and we heard some native dogshowling to the south-west...
Charles Sturt 「Expedition into Central Australia」
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