differs in the number of eggs, which are faid to be only two, 

 but in two fpecimens we examined in the fpring of the prefent 

 year, we found in each a confiderable number, five of which 

 were in a ftate to be laid in as many fucceffive days ; one of 

 the eggs was quite perfe6l, and would mod probably have 

 been laid the day it was killed ; the colour of the egg was 

 greenifii white, blotched and fpotted with obfcure green marks. 

 It does not make any neft, but depofits its eggs on the bare 

 ground, frequently in marfliy places, and is faid not to fit on 

 them in the day-time, till within a few days of their being 

 hatched ; they run as foon as excluded ; the parent birds arc 

 very tenacious of them, and pra6tife the fame kind of artifices 

 to miflead, that are fo generally adopted by the plover and 

 fand-piper families. 



The principal food of this bird is worms, flugs, fnails, and 

 infe6ls, alfo the tops of green wheat and turnip leaves ; we 

 have alfo found in it entire heads of clover ; it affeds open 

 fituations, particularly ftony hills and large commons in the 

 vicinity of cultivated land ; its note is a loud whiftle, which 

 it repeats three or four times, and heightens the note each 

 time. It] arrives here in the month of April and quits ira 

 Oaober. 



Provincial names Stone or Land Curlew and Thick-Kneed 

 Buftard. 



