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with a {creaming noife and flies around their heads. 
She cries the moft, and feems the moft alarmed, 
when they are not very near the neft, Sometimes 
too fhe will run along limping, as if fhe were lame, 
to draw them from the young. The lite ones on — 
the firft alarm, lie quite {till and clofe to the 
ground; and it is at any time very difficult to take 
them, without a dog, becaufe they run fo faft. 
In July they moult, or get new feathers; about 
that timeall the Lapwings belonging toa marfh, get 
together: they join the flocks of the neighbouring 
marfhes, and in a few days they increafe to the 
number of five or fix hundred: they fkim along 
the air, or wander in the meadows; and after rains 
they frequent ground that is plowed, to look for 
worms. When they are in flocks they do not 
ftay long in any place, indeed they cannot, for 
they very foon deftroy all the worms there, and are 
obliged to feek another {pot. 
In the month of Oétober they are very fat, for 
then ” find worms in the greateft plenty. 
In Champagne, in France, they take great num- 
bers of Lapwings in nets, by means of a looking- 
glafS; they take them into a meadow, and place 
between the nets fome Lapwings that are ftuffed, 
and one or two of the birds alive, to call the others, 
or clfe the bird-catcher is hid and imitates their 
C4 cry, 
