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lives with us the whole year. The Norfolk Plover 

 and Sea Lark breed in England. The Green Plover 

 breeds on the mountains of the North of England, 

 and on the Grampian Hills. 



We mud here remark, that every fpecies of the 

 genera of Curlews, Woodcocks, Sandpipers and 

 Plovers*, that forfake us in the Tpring, retire to 

 Sweden, Poland, Pruffia, Norway, and Lapland to 

 breed -, as foon as the young can fly, they return 

 to us again ; becaufe the frolts which fet in early 

 in thole countries totally deprive them of the 

 means of fubfifting ; as the drynefs and hardnefs of 

 the ground, in general, during our fummer, pre- 

 vent them from penetrating the earth with their 

 bills, in fearch of worms, which are the natural 

 food of thefe birds. 



Every fpecies of thefe twogenera continue with Rails an© 

 us the whole year ; the Land Rail excepted, which su - lElt 



* Mr. Ekmarck fpeaks thus of the retreat of the whole 

 tribe of cloven footed water fowl out of his country (Sweden) 

 at the approach of winter ; and Mr. Klein gives much the 

 fame account of thofe of Poland and Pruffia. 



Gralla (tanquam conjuratae) unanimiter in fugam fe conji- 

 ciunt, ne earum unicam quidem inter nos habitantem invenire 

 poflumus. Aman. Acad. IV. 588, 



Scolopaces et Glareol& incredibilibus multitudinibus verno 

 tempore in Polonia et Boruffia nidulantur; appropinquante 

 autumno turmatim evolant. Klein 4e a<v. errat. 187, 



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