BRITISH BIRDS® 
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iling after their infed prey on the pebbly margins of 
brooks and rivers. The female makes her neft in a 
hole on the ground near their haunts ; her eggs, 
commonly five in number, are much mottled and 
marked with dark fpots, on a yellowifli ground. 
They leave England in the autumn, but whither 
they go is not particularly noticed by ornithologifts. 
Buffon fays they retire far north ; and Pennant and 
Latham that they are met with in Siberia and Kamts- 
chatca, and are alfo not uncommon in North Ame- 
rica. 
