and 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 fmall 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 confiderable time, and do not 
ufe their wings till towards the clofe of autumn. The parents 
are very attentive to the young, and pradife 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 flirill whiftle, which is often repeated^ 
but when difturbed with its young, it rifes, and will continue 
fcreaming while on wing. 
Our figure was executed for the late W. Curtis, 
Provincial names, Grey Plover, Whirling Plover, and 
Greyling, 
