•2\-2 SHOOTING GEEY PLOVER AND LAPWING. 



sportsman. Colonel Hawker says, golden plovers 

 were formerly killed in great nmnbers by means of 

 stalking-horses. We never saw the contrivance put 

 in practice, but bear testimony to the tiiith of the 

 second plan he mentions : — " If you fire at these 

 birds, as they fly over you, they will dart down for 

 a moment, and spread in every direction : so that, by 

 taldng a random shot with your first barrel, you may 

 often bring down the birds to a fair one for your 

 second." Golden plovers may be looked for in all 

 places where their favourite food, worms, are likely to 

 be found. 



THE GREY PLOVER. 



Ireland seems the chosen land of the Grey 

 Plover, which is there met with in strong flocks ; 

 but almost invariably associated with the Lapmng, 

 or Green Plover, the most wary sentinel that ever 

 bore feathers. The most probable method of bagging 

 this bird is to wait till he is on the wing. This he 

 commences by towering at first in close order, and 

 then descending, and sweeping, within a few feet of 

 the ground, in circles and gyrations. It is when 

 engaged in these manoeuvres he is most readily shot. 



THE LAPWING. 



According to the French proverb, " he who has 

 not eaten the Lapwing, does not know what game 



