[Ads-l] Antedating of "hill plover" (OED 1890)

[John Doe]

1842 "Boston Amateur Poet" The Poet's Offering Where the hill-plover
hastens her dusky flight
https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Poet_s_Offering/nrNUAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22hill+plover%22&pg=PA154&printsec=frontcover
(Note: title page lists "John Patch" as the writer of the work in pencil.)

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