arid commons, and in winter they are found on the fea-coaft ; 

 they may frequently be feen fkulking along under warm 

 funny banks, where there is a fmali water-courfe. 



It lays four eggs, moftly on the ground, but fometimes on 

 fome heath or fern, they nearly refemble thofe of the lap- 

 wing ; the young run as foon as they are hatched, and are led 

 by the parents to the fides of pools and rivulets in fearch of 

 worms, which conftitute their principal food ; they are 

 covered with a dark down for a eonfiderable time, and do not 

 ufe their wings till towards the clofe of autumn. The parents 

 are very attentive to the young, and practife many artifices to 

 entice intruders from them, much in the fame manner as 

 already defcribed in the Partridge. The brood keep together 

 till the following fpring. 



Its ufual note is a fhrill whittle, which is often repeated, 

 but when difturbed with its young, it rifes, and will continue 

 ^creaming while on wing. 



Our figure was executed for the late W. Curtis. 



Provincial names, Grey Plover, Whittling Plover, and 

 Greyling. 



