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witha {creaming noife and flies around.their heads. 
She cries the moft, and feems the moft alarmed, 
when they are not very near the neft. Sometimes 
too fhe will run along limping, as if fhe were lame, 
-todraw them from the young. ‘The little ones on 
the firft alarm, lie quite ftill and clofe to the 
_ ground; and it is at any time very difficult to take. 

them, without a dog, becaufe they run fo faft. 
In July they moult,. or get new feathers; about 
that timeall the Lapwings belonging toamarth, get, 
| together : they join the flocks of the neighbouring 
: ‘martes, and ina few days they increafe to the 
number of five or fix hundred: they fkim along 
the air, or wander in the meadows; and after rains 
| they frequent ground that is plowed, to look for 
worms,. * When they are in flocks. they do not 
{tay long-in- any place, indeed they cannot, for 
_ they very foon deftroy all the worms thers and are 
obliged. to feek another fpot.. . 
In the month of O&ober they ar are very fat, for 
| then they find worms in the greateft plenty. 
| In Champagne, in France, they take great num-= 
bers of Lapwings in nets, by means of a looking- 
—giafs; they take them into a meadow, and place 
between the nets fome Lapwings that are fluffed, 
and one or two of the birds alive, to call the others, 
clfe the’ bird-catcher is hid and imitates their 
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