214 PLOVER SHOOTING. 



a fishy taste altogether unlike the succulent, 

 delicate flavour of the inland fowl. Plover are 

 in perfection in November. When the bird is 

 getting out of season, and poor eating,it becomes 

 black on the breast, that is, the white feathers on 

 the breast change colour. As for cooking these 

 dainties (for dainties they are to the initiated, 

 and quite as attractive as teal), Francatelli may 

 have his own way of doing them, but served 

 with fresh butter melted on them at table, a 

 tinge of lemon, and no sauce, plover are not 

 bad, especially if you have stalked and shot them 

 yourself. 



