Cambridgefliifes to the London markets, in very confiderablc 

 numbers ; they breed in the vicinity of marfhes and in boggy 

 places ; we have feen them in company with Lapwings on 

 Riegate-Heath ; their number of eggs is four, which in colour 

 referable thofe of the Lapwing, but are rather fmaller and 

 more pointed. 



During the time of incubation they are very reftlefs, and 

 purfue the fame ftratagems to millead, as are praaifed by 

 xnoft others of this extenfive family ; when difturbed from 

 their eggs, they fly over the heads of the intruders, uttering a 

 fhrill fcream ; they do not make any nefl, bsit depofit their eggs 

 ©n a tuft of grafs, moft generally in the vicinity of an extenfive 

 fwamp ; the young at firft are of a dull olive brown colour ; 

 they run as foon as hatched, and feed on fmall worms and aqua- 

 tic infedts ; in the ftomach of a full grown female, killed in 

 January 1812, we found a marine univale fhell, one inch and a 

 quarter long, and feven-eighths of an inch in circumference. 



Provincial names Pool-Snipe, Red-legged Horfeman^ Sand« 

 Cock,, or Thriller. 



