BRITISH BIRDS. 
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by a tuft of bent grafs, without any other neft than 
the bare fand and fragments of fliells, blown thither 
by the wind. She lays four or five eggs of a green- 
ifli grey colour, fpotted with black, which Ihe leaves 
during the day expofed to the influence of the fun, 
and is careful to fit upon them herfelf only during 
the night and in bad weather. The young ones 
may eafily be tamed, and will alfociate with do- 
meftic poultry. ^ 
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