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 fucceflive days ; one of 
the eggs was quite perfe6l, and would moft probably have 
been laid the day it was killed ; the colour of the egg was 
greenifh 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 are 
very tenacious of them, and pra<Stife 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, llugs, 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 
Ticinity 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 in 
0£lober. 
Provincial names Stone or Land Curlew and Thick-Kneed 
Buftard. 
