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: and fights with any other the moment he — 
_ into his circle. 
Mr. Pennant fays, a while t room full of Ruffs 
began to fight, by making them change their fta- 
tions, but foon after they returned to their own 
: places and became peaceable. 
_ The Lapwing is another fpecies of the eval 
‘its legs are red, the breaft black, and it has a cre‘t 
' that falls backwards behind itshead, 
It is called Lapwing from the noife which it 
makes with its wings asit flies. Its wings are 
_ ftrong, and it ufes them much. It flies a long 
time, and rifes very high. When it is upon the 
ground, it fprings forward, hops and fkims along — 
F  . the furface by fhort and broken flights. 

_ The Lapwing isa very fprightly bird, he is 
 conftantly in motion; he fports in the air and 
puts himfelf into many different fituations ; fome- 
times with his back downwards, fometimes on 
one fide with his wings one above and one below 
__hisbody; no bird gambols and plays more lightly. 
_ Lapwings appear in meadows, in England, in 
great flocks, about the beginning of March, and 
foon after a thaw. They frequent green corn= 
_ fields, and in the morning they almoft cover the 
| marfhy meadows in fearch of worms: when they 
fee thofe little Jumps of earth which the worms 
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