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larger droves ; it manifestly seeks to live in a community, and if a 
flock be studied, their movements will be found to exhibit a high 
degree of unanimity. 
Ignorance of the signification of hedgerows, easily comprehended 
as characterising a species accustomed to range at will over vast 
tracts of unenclosed country, proved fatal to some individuals on 
their first arrival, but the survivors were not slow to adopt habits 
of increased vigilance. ‘Thus, when a flock of ten birds had been 
marked down into a ploughed field, and their propinquity obtained 
by a long détour a ventre, the writer had scarcely taken up a vantage 
point in a thick furze bush overlooking the birds, when they began 
to run together, and having packed on the ground, rose and 
abruptly departed, pausing only when they had gained the shelter 
of the sea beach. They were marked down afresh, but the like 
result followed. Rising sharply at forty yards distance, they 
executed a few rapid turns, and pitched in the field which they 
had quitted previously. On other occasions flocks, which had been 
shot at previously, showed similar wariness to that just described ; 
but at the same time it should be understood that when in full 
flight, parties of Sand-grouse will approach men within a few yards. 
Noticing a distant flock apparently making for the sea, a position 
in their probable line of flight was hastily secured, and with success, 
for the birds shot overhead across the heath like arrows, their wings 
beating the air audibly as they pursued their headlong course. On 
another occasion the writer happened to be walking beneath a bank 
of littoral sandhills, when a party of Sand-grouse dashed out over 
head, calling lustily. Away they sped across the beach, over long 
reaches of sand, away to the edge of a distant tide, and then 
following the water edge for about a mile, they swept westward 
towards Beckfoot, but checking their course before the village was 
reached, they rose high in the air and curving their course with 
one accord, travelled back to Wolstey, dropping once again in a 
favourite field. And at this point a word may be said about the 
flight of the Sand-grouse. Putting aside all preconceived notions, 
it must be held to bear a not inconsiderable similarity to that of 
the Golden Plover (Charadrius pluvialis) ; yet the flight of single 
