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* That black The Hen is a little leffer than the Cock : Her throat is all white as low as the * col- 

 SinJ P a e cre- lar : The ba Y colour u ? der the Tail paler. Moreover, the outmoft feather of the Tail 

 fcem, we is wholly white, wanting that brown fpot. The colours alfo in the Cocks dofbme- 

 fpakeof. w h at var y 5 not anfwering always exaftly in all things to our defcription. 



It lays four or five Eggs, of a dirty yellow, all over painted with great black {pots 

 and ftroaks. It builds its Neft on the ground, in the middle of fbme field or heath 

 open, and expofed to view, laying only fome few ftraws or bents under the Eggs' 

 that the Neft be not feen. The Eyes beiqg fo like in colour to the ground on which 

 they lie, it is noteafie to find them though they lie fo open. The Young fb foon as 

 they are hatcht inftantly forfake the Neft, running away ( as the common tradition 

 is) with the (hells upon their heads, for they are covered with a thick Down, and 

 follow the old ones like Chickens. They fay, that a Lapwing the further you are 

 from her Neft, the more clamorous fhe is, and the greater coil fhe keeps, the nearer 

 you are to it, the quieter (he is, andlefscoiieerned (he feems : That (he may draw you 

 away from the true place, and induce you to think it is where it is not. 



Thefe Birds are wont to be kept in Gardens in the Summer time, in which they do 

 good fervice in gathering up and clearing the ground of Worms and other Infcfts. 

 Their fleih is indifferent good meat. In Summer time they fcatter themfelves about 

 the Country to breed : In Winter time they accompany together, and fly in flocks. 



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Chap. II. 

 Of the flover : De Pluviali feu Pardak. 



§. I. 



The green Plover. Pluvialis viridis. 



IN bignefs it equals or exceeds the Lapwing, weighing about nine ounces 5 being 

 in length from Bill to Tail eleven inches, in breadth between the tips of the 

 Wings extended twenty four. 

 „ Its colour on the top of the Head, Neck,Shoulders, Back, and in general the whole 

 upper fide is black, thick let with yellowifh green fpots. If you heed each fingle 

 feather, you will find the middle part to be black, the borders or edges round about 

 ipotted with a yellowifh green colour. The Head for the bulk of the body is grea- 

 ter than in the Fringe 5 the Bill ftreight, black, of an inch length, furrowed about 

 theNofthrils. The Neck (hort, equal to a Lapwings. The Breaft brown, ipotted 

 with a yellowilh green. The belly white, yet the feathers on the fides tipt with 

 brown, and crofted alio with brown lines. 



Of the quil-feathers in each Wing the eleventh ends in a blunt point, thofe before 

 it running out into fharp points on the outfide the ihaft, thofe behind it on thein- 

 fide. All but the five next the body are brown. The fhafts of the outmoft eight or 

 nine are half way white. The exteriour edges of the fifth, and thofe following it, 

 are a little white toward their bottoms. The inmoft five next the body are of the 

 fame colour with the Back. The fecond row of Wing-feathers are brown, [ or dufc 

 ky ] with white tips. The reft of the covert-feathers are on the upper fide of the 

 Wing of the fame colour with the Back, on the under-fide with the Belly. The Tail 

 is fhort, made up of twelve feathers, of the fame colour with the Back, when fpread 

 terminated in a circular circumference. 



The Feet and Claws are black. It wants the back-toe : By which note alone it is 

 abundantly diftinguiftied from the other birds of its kind. Its Legs are long, as in all 

 other birds which live about waters, and bare of feathers for fbme fpace above the 

 knees. Itsfiefti is fweet and tender, and therefore highly efteemed, and accounted a 

 choice difh, as well in England as beyond Seas. 



This Bird from its fpots, fomething refembling thofe of a Leopard, is called Pardalk. 



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