BRITISH BIRDS. 
33 s 
The Golden Plover is common in this coun- 
try, and all the northern parts of Europe ; it 
is very numerous in various parts of America, 
from Hudfon’s Bay as far as Carolina, migrating 
from one place to another according to the fea- 
fons : It breeds on high and heathy mountains ; 
the female lays four eggs, of a pale olive colour, 
variegated with blackifh fpots : They fly in fmall 
flocks, and make a Ihrill whiffling noife, by an imi- 
tation of which they are fometimes enticed within 
gun-fhot. The male and female do not differ from 
each other. In young birds the yellow fpots are 
not very difflnguifhabJe, the plumage inclining 
more to gray. 
