THE GOLDEN PLOVER. 



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THE COMMON, OR GOLDEX PLOVER. 



The Common Plover is, according to the season of the year, met 

 with in almost every part of the world. They arrive on the eoast of 

 the middle and northern states in spring and early in autumn. Near 

 to Nantasket and Chelsea beach, they are seen, on their return from 

 their inclement natal regions in the north, by the close of August, and 

 the young remain in the vicinity till about the middle of October. 



GOLDEN PLOVER. 



or later, according to the state of the weather. They live principally 

 upon land insects, or the larvae and worms they meet with in the saline 

 marshes, and appear very fond of grasshoppers. About the tine of 

 their departur? they are, early in a morning, seen sometimes asaem- 



