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compared to the turning of a rufiy handle. BuP 
fon endeavours to exprefs.it by the words turrlui , 
iurrlui , and fays, it refembles the found of a third 
flute, dwelling on three or four tones from a flat 
to a fharp, Its food confilts chiefly of worms. It 
is faid to be good eating when young ; the flefh of 
the old ones is hard, black, and dry. Mr White 
mentions them as frequenting the difiri£t of Sel- 
borfre, in Hamplhire. Pie fays, that the young 
run immediately from the neft, almoft as foon as 
they are excluded, like Partridges ; that the dam 
leads them to fome ftony field, .where they balk, 
fkulking among the Hones, which they refemble fd 
nearly in colour, as not eafily to be difcovered. 
Birds of this kind are migratory ;. they arrive iri 
April, live with us all the fpring and fummer, and 
at the beginning of autumn prepare to take leave 
by getting together in flocks ; it is fuppofed that 
they retire to Spain, and frequent the Iheep- walks 
with which that country abounds. 
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