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not fond of going near the water, but feed on earth-worms, 

 that are common on sheep-walks and downs. They breed on 

 fallows and lay-fields abounding with gray mossy flints, 

 which much resemble their young in colour; among which 

 they skulk and conceal themselves. They make no nest, 

 but lay their eggs on the bare ground, producing in com- 

 mon but two at a time. There is reason to think their 

 young run soon after they are hatched ; and that the old 

 ones do not feed them, but only lead them about at the 



STONE CURLEW. 



time of feeding, which, for the most part, is in the night." 

 Thus far my friend. 



In the manners of this bird you see there is something 

 very analogous to the bustard, whom it also somewhat 

 resembles in aspect and make, and in the structure of its 

 feet. 



tion is to presume that a portion of the migratory party, in their southern 

 flight in the autumn, hold a northern limit just reaching the Land's End 

 and the Lizard lands (the most southern in the British isles), the eorre* 

 sponding northern migration in the spring just taking the whole number 

 above the southern latitudes of the extreme western counties ED- 



