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the fruits of heath and mofs-plants, fmall beetles and other in- 

 fects. It is of the fize of a pigeon. The head and eyes are 

 fmall, the iris of a hazel colour. The beak is black, ftrong at 

 the bafc, and obtufe at the extremity ; the mouth large. The 

 head and neck are of a greenifh-grey, fhaded with brown, and 

 variegated with numerous black fpots. The reft of the upper 

 plumage is of a dark brown, tipped with a greenifh-grey, with 

 fome white on the edges of the fail-feathers. The breaft, belly, 

 tail, and rump, are white. The tail is about three inches long, 

 and variegated with tranfverfe bars of black and white. The 

 legs are of a green ifli-grey, with tranfverfe inciflures or indei .;- 

 ings ; the claws black, fmall, and obtufe. 



26. The fmall black-breajled Whiftling Plover (d) is in confiderable 

 plenty on the waftes towards Cumberland. In the breeding feafon 

 it deludes the boys in fearching for its ncft by running before 

 them, and then taking fhort broken flights, alternately, till it 

 has allured them to a great diftance, when on a fudden it flies 

 out of the reach of their obfervation. 



27. The green migratory Plover (e) is frequent on mountainous 

 heaths. It comes in the fpring, and leaves us at the end of au- 

 tumn. It is of the fize of a pigeon. The beak is an inch long, 

 black, furrowed at the noflrils, ftrong and obtufe at the points. 



(d) Pluvialis minor nigro -flavus. Rudb. pi&. 



Churardrius aigro Ituefcente variegatus, pe&ore nigro. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 57. 156. 



(e) Pluvialis viridis. Will. Orn. p. 229. t. 57. Raj. Av. p. 3. n. 7. Cbarlet. A.V. P. 113. 

 n. 2. migrateria eft: asftate enim nulla npttd not cernitur, vere perpauca. 



Charardrius nigro lutefcenteque variegato, peftore concolore. Linn. Faun. Suec. p. 57. 

 n. 157. 



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