CuassIL SCOOPING AVOSET. 
dike Wash in Lincolnshire. Like the Lapwing, 
when disturbed, they flew over our heads, car- 
rying their necks and long legs quite extended, 
and made a shrill noise (Twit) twice repeated, 
during the whole time. ‘The country people, 
for this reason, call them Yelpers, and some- 
times distinguish them by the name of Picarine. 
They feed on worms and insects that they scoop 
with their bills out of the sand; their search af- 
ter food is frequently to be discerned on our 
shores by alternate semicircular marks in the 
sand, which shew their progress. They lay 
two eggs about the size of those of a pigeon, 
. white tinged with green,* and marked with large 
black spots. 
_ * Dr. Latham says, that the eggs are of a cinereous grey, 
whimsically marked with deep brownish black patches of irre- 
gular sizes and shapes, besides some undermarkings of a dusky 
hue. Eb. 
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