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mandible, and from thence through the eyes, and behind them 

 to the ears, black : forehead white : behind this, from eye to eye, 

 black : the reft of the head pale brown : chin and throat white, 

 paffing round the neck in a broad collar : beneath this, on the 

 lower part of the neck, is a fecond of black, encircling the 

 neck behind, but growing narrow as it paffes backward : breaft 

 and all the under parts white : back and wing coverts pale brown : 

 quills dufky, mixed with fome white on the inner webs : the two 

 middle feathers of the tail greyifh brown, growing almoft black 

 towards the ends ; the three next on each fide the fame, with the 

 tips white ; the laft but one is white, with a brown band : the 

 outer one white, marked with a fpot only : legs orange-colour : 

 claws black. 

 Male. In the male the white on the forehead takes up more fpace 



than in the female, there is a greater portion of white in the 

 wings, and the plumage inclines more to afh-colour. 

 Place and Thefe birds migrate into England, in the fpring, and depart in 



autumn : frequent our fhores during the fummer. They lay 

 four eggs, an inch and a half in length, of a pale afh-colour, 

 fpotted and blotched with black, leaft fo at the fmall end : thefe 

 they lay on the ground, under fome fhelter, but make no neft. 

 They run very faft, fometimes taking fhort flights, twittering loud 

 at the fame time, then alight and run again, and if much difturbed, 

 either fly quite off, or creep into fome hole till the danger is 

 over. 



Found alfo in feveral parts of the continent, and in Greenland, 

 as well as in various parts of America, in the fouthern as well as 

 the northern extremes. Vifits Hudfon's Bay the middle of June, 

 and departs in September. Has the fame manners there as in 



England* 



Manners. 



