BRITISH BIRDS, 
33 S 
parts are white ; the quills are duiky, with an oval 
white fpot about the middle of each feather, which 
forms, when the wing is clofed, a ftroke of white 
down each wing ; the tail is of a dark brown, tip- 
ped with white, the two outer feathers almoft 
white ; the legs are of an orange colour ; claws 
black.— In the female, the white on the forehead 
is lefs ; there is more white on the wings, and the 
plumage inclines more to alh colour. 
Thefe birds are common in all the northern 
countries ; they migrate into Britain in the fpring, 
and depart in autumn : They frequent the fea- 
fhores during fummer ; they run nimbly along the 
fands, fometimes taking Ihort flights, accompanied 
with loud twitterings, then alight and run again : 
If difturbed, they fly quite off. They are faid to 
make no neft ; the female lays four eggs, of a pale 
afh colour, fpotted with black, which Ihe depolits 
pn the ground. 
