BLACK-BELLIKD PLOVER. 
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Hudson Bay. How for this bird extends its migrations to the 
southward is not satisfactorily ascertained, though there is little 
doubt but that It ranges to the confines of Mexico, and it has 
been seen in considerable numbers in Louisiana and the Car- 
ohnas during the winter. 7\ccording to Wilson it generally 
rrives in the inland parts of Pennsylvania in the latter irart of 
pnl ; and less timid than the Golden Plover, it often selects 
e p oughed field for the site of its nest, where the ordinary 
iare of earth-worms, larvas, beetles, and winged insects now 
dDounds. The nest, as in most of the birds of this class is 
very slightly and quickly made of a few blades of stubble’ or 
'VI lered grass, in which are generally deposited four e^gs 
indfes^^ ^* 1 *^ scarcely a line short of two 
and bf cream color slightly inclining to olive, 
blotches of 
gntish brown, and others of a subdued tint, bordering on 
thp *^i specks, as usual, more numerous towards 
temperate parts of the United 
in broods in the season, though only one 
renc where, indeed, the nests are of rare occiir- 
mur-r Ptt'ring the summer the young and old now feed 
enri various kinds of berries, particularly those of the 
is hLr™'"'^’ dew-berries; and their flesh at this time 
headL^pr^^^"^^^' Betel- 
with th England) descend 
assemw"-^”™^ sea-coast, where they 
Place* "umbers from all their Northern breeding- 
aby motive°r ‘"'I 'vdhout 
promise fh ° attachment, they crowd to such places as 
•t tte„l " »f »b.i.Knce; 
animals as '""n ®Pbll-fish, shrimps, and other minute marine 
fields ’ grasshoppers, which abound in the 
, constitute their principal fore. 
'vatchfif“!;’'""'^V'-7"'' extremely shy and 
flics high anTcf ? “ ’ "°‘b as it 
ularly in the hr noisy, partic- 
ee ing-season, as to have acquired among many 
