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they are much difturbed they either fly away, or 
creep into fome hole until the danger be over. 
They come to England in the Spring, and leave 
it in Autumn. They lay four eggs, under 
fome fhelter on the ground, for they make no neft; 
and the young cannot begin to fly until they are 
a month or five weeks old. © The parent birds 
take much pains to miflead thofe who are fearch- 
ing for their neft. 
The noify Plover is another fpecies ; it is about 
the fize of a Snipe; it is only found in America, 
The fowlers very much diflike this bird, becaufe 
the moment any perfon comes in fight he 
fets % a great noife, which gives the alarm to al] 
the birds that are near, and they fly away and dif- 
appoint the fowler. 
~The Alexandrian and Egyptian Plovers are two 
other fpecies; they both inhabit Egypt, and feed 
on {mall frogs and on infects. 
The Dottrell is another fpecies ; it is very deli- 
cate food. It is found in the northern parts of 
Europe, from England to Sweden and Lapland. 
Dottrels migrate, or remove from the plains to 
the mountains, and back again to the plains, in 
April and in Auguft. They feed on beetles, on 
worms, and on {nails. They are in great num- 
bers in the county of Norfolk. It is faid that 
they 


