6¢ THE NATURAL HISTORY 
they are fometimes taken in the following man. 
> er: five or fix fowlers fet out together, and as 
foon as they fee the Dottrels they fix their nets; 
then they go round, fo that the birds may be be. 
tween fome of them and the nets: they flightly 
roufe the birds by ftriking two ftones, or two. 
pieces of wood, together. Thefe indolent Dot- 
trels awake, f{tretch out a !ez,or a wing : the fowlers 
imitate them by ftretching out aleg or anarm: 
they pretend to think that it amufes the birds, and 
_ prevents their attending to the nets. The Dot- 
trels then go away flowly from the fowlers, till 
they cet to the net, which is fuffered to fall upon 
them: but this method is now nearly out of ufe, 
and the fowlers fhoot them. 
The great Plover is grey; the two firft quill- 
feathers are | black, except in the middle, there 
they are white; the bill is fharp and black; the 
feet are afh-colour. The lower eye-lid is naked. 
and clay-coloured; there is a little yellow line 
above and beneath the eyes, and a brown line = 

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the beak, under the eyes, to the ears.. -f 
The wings of thefe Plovers are very large; they _ 
rife when the fowler is at a great diftance, efpes 
cially in the day,, aud then they fly very near the 
ground; they run upon mofles, and in the fields, 
as faft as adog. After they have run a litte 
time. 

