These Plovers keep together in broods or small com- 

 panies, and feed much upon grasshoppers. In the 

 pastures they familiarly follow and feed around the 

 cattle, and, though usually wary of man, can generally 

 be approached from a cart or wagon. In August these 

 birds approach the vicinity of the sea, but resort to feed 

 and roost in the contiguous dry fields. They run fast 

 and often skulk in high grass. On being alarmed they 

 utter three or four querulous whistling notes as they 

 mount to fly, and when travelling they have a short 

 warbling whistle. The author from whom I am quoting 

 states that about the middle of August the market of 

 - Boston, Mass., is amply supplied with this " delicate 

 and justly esteemed game," In Yarrell, loc. supra cit., 

 I find that the migrations of this species extend as far 

 southward as the West Indies, Brazil, Eastern Peru, and 

 Chile. In Europe Bartram's Plover has been met with 

 certainly in Malta and in Northern Italy, and there are 

 also records of its occurrence in Sweden, Holland, and 

 Hesse. John Gould states that he examined a specimen 

 shot near Botany Bay. 



