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~ and fights with any other the moment he comes 
~. into his circle. 
_Mr. Pennant fays, a whole room full of Ruffs 
began to fight, by making them change their fta- 
tions, but foon after they returned to their own 
places and became peaceable. 
_. The Lapwing is another fpecies of the Tringa, 
its legs are red, the breaft black, and it has a creft 
that falls backwards behind its head. 
[tis called Lapwing from the noife which it 
makes with its wings asit flies. Its wings are 
ftrong, and it ufes them much. It flies a long 
time, and rifes very high. When it is upon the 
ground, it fptings forward, hops and fkims along 
_ the furface by fhort and broken flights. 
The Lapwing is a very fprightly bird, he is 
_ conftantly in motion; he fports in the air and 
_ puts himfelf into many different fituations ; fome- 
times with his back downwards, fometimes on 
one fide with his wings one above and one below 
his body ; no bird gambols and plays more lightly. 
Lapwings appear in meadows, in England, in 
‘great flocks, about the beginning of March, and 
foon afterathaw. They frequent green corn- 
fields; and in the morning they almoft cover the 
marfhy meadows in fearch of worms: when they 
fee thofeittle lumps of earth which the worms 
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