Cambridgefliires to the London markets, In very confiderable 
numbers ; they breed in the vicinity of marflies and in boggy 
places ; we have feen them in company with Lapwings on 
Riegate-Heath ; their number of eggs is four, which in colour 
refemble thofc 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 miflead, as are pradifed by 
moft others of this extenfive family ; when difturbed from 
their eggs, they fly over the heads of the intruders, uttering a 
ihrill fcream ; they do not make any neft, but depofit their eggs 
on 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 infeas ; 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. 
