
read. RDAs, 61 
They come back in the Spring, but always in 
flocks. A Plover is feldom feen alone ; indeed, 
there are feldom lefs than fifty in a flock. Whilft 
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they are on the ground, they are in conftant mo- 
tion, always feeking for worms. Several of them 
fland fentinel, or watch, whilft the re{t are em- 
ployed in feeding. On the leaft danger thefe 
fentinels make a fhrill noife, and at that fignal they 
all fy away. They fly with the wind, and their 
manner of flying is very fingular. They range 
themfelves in a line, not in length, one after 
another, but in rank, or fide by fide, fo that they 
form narrow lines in the air of a great extent: 
fometimes feveral of thefe lines are feen at once., 
~ When the Plovers are on the ground, they 
run much, and very faft. They continue in flocks 
all the day, and only {@parate at night: every one 
roofts on a little {pot by itfelf; but by day break, 
that which awakes firft, or that which is the moft 
induttrious, calls the reft. They all come toge- 
ther at this call. This is the time which the 
fowlers chufe to endeavour to take them. Before 
day they ftretch a long net jut oppofite the fpot 
where they obferved the plovers root the evening 
before. The fowlers furround them in confider- 
: e numbers ; and when the Plover, who awa $ 
a begins to call, the fowlers lie along rt 
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