478 DOTTREL. Class II. 



black, and tipped with white. The bread and 

 fides are of a dull orange color j but immediately 

 above that is a line of white, bounded above with 

 a very narrow one of black. The belly (in the 

 male) is black: thighs and vent-feathers white: 

 legs yeliowiili green : toes dufky. 

 Female, The colors of the female in .general are duller: 



the white over the eye is lefs ; and the crown of 

 the head is mottled with brown and white. The 

 white line crofs the bread is wanting. The belly 

 is mixed with black and white. 

 Place. Thefe birds are found in Cambridge/hire, Lincoln- 



jhire, and Derby/hire : on Lincoln-heath, and on the 

 moors of DerbyJJjire they are migratory, appear- 

 ing there in fmall flocks of eight or ten only in 

 the latter end of April, and ftay there all May and 

 part of June, during which time they are very fat, 

 and much efleemed for their delicate flavor. In 

 the months of April and September they are taken 

 on the Wiltjhire and Berkfhire downs : they are alfo 

 found in the beginning of the former month on 

 the fea fide at Meales in Lancajhire, and continue 

 there about three weeks, attending the barly fal- 

 lows : from thence they remove northward to a 

 place called Leyton Haws, and flay there about a 

 fortnight -, but where they breed, or where they 

 refide during winter, we have not been able to 

 difcover. They are reckoned very fooliih birds, 

 ib that a dull fellow is proverbially called a Dottrel. 

 They were alfo believed to mimick the action of 



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