BRITISH BIRDS. 17 



brown, tipped with white, the two outer feathers 

 almost white; legs orange; claws black. In the 

 female, the w^hite on the forehead is less; there is 

 more white on the wings, and the plumage inclines 

 more to ash. They appear in the same plumage 

 in Greenland. 



These birds are common in all the northern 

 counties; they migrate into Britain in the spring, 

 and depart in autumn: they frequent the sea- 

 shores during summer, and run nimbly along the 

 sands, sometimes taking short flights, accompanied 

 with loud twitterings, then alight, and run again: 

 if disturbed, they fly quite off. They make no 

 nest; the female lays four eggs, of a pale ash, 

 spotted with black, which she deposits on the 

 ground by the sea-shore. 



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