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nd they almoft all fly away to milder climat 















6o THE NATURAL HISTORY 
Genus 49. CHARARDRIUS. 
The beak is flender and blunt. 
The noftrils are narrow. 
~They have three toes, and their feet are formed for 
running. 
LOVERS appear in great numbers in the 
Provinces of France, during the rains in 
Autumn, They frequent low, and moitt, and 
marfhy fituations, where they feek for worms and 
infefts. Every morning they go to the water to 
wath their bills-and their feet, which mutt be 
clogged with dirt in their fearch for food, 
They ftrike the ground with their feet, to make 
the worms come out upon the furface ; and they 
feize them with their beaks, even before they are 
entirely out of the earth. It is very probable that 
they can faft a long while : a Gentleman kept one 
fourteen days, and all that time he only dranka 
little water, a allowed a few grains of fand, 
They feldom e than twenty-four hours in 
one place, for they come in great flocks, and foon 
deftroy all the worms; this obliges them to f 
another fituation ; and as foon as the fnow ap 






They 
