BRITISH BIRDS. 
This is a very common bird with us, and may 
be feen every where, running on the ground, and 
frequently leaping after flies and other infedts, on 
which it feeds. Its ufual haunts are the fhallow 
margins of waters, into which it will fometimes 
wade a little in fearch of its food. It makes its 
neft on the ground, of dry grafs, mofs, and fmall 
roots, lined with hair and feathers ; the female lays 
five white eggs, fpotted with brown. The parent 
birds are very attentive to their young, and conti- 
nue to feed and train them for three or four weeks 
after they are able to fly ; they will defend them 
with great courage when in danger, or endeavour 
to draw afide the enemy by various little arts. 
They are very attentive to the cleanlinefs of the 
neft, and will throw out the excrement ; they 
have been known to remove light fubftances, fuch 
as paper or ftraw, which has been laid as a mark 
for the neft. It is laid by fome authors to migrate 
into other climates about the end of Odlober ; with 
us it is known to change its quarters as the winter 
approaches, from north to fouth. Its note is fmall 
and infignificant, but frequently repeated, efpecially 
while on the wing. 
