6: THE NATURALS HISTORY - 
| Game} 49. Cc HARARD ris. 
The beak is flender and blunt. ? 
~ The noftrils are narrow. haan’ , 
They have three toes, and thei feet are formed. for 
running, ~ 
LOVERS appear in oreat numbers in the - 
Provinces of France, during the rains in 
Autumn, They frequent low, and moift, and 
~ marfhy fituations, where they feek for worms and 
infects. Every morning they go to the, water to 
wath their bills and their feet, which muft be 
clogged: with dirt in. their fearch for. food. 
They ftrike the ground with their feet, to make 
the worms come out upon. the furface ; and they 
feize them with their beaks, even before they are 
entirely out of the earth. It is very probable that 
‘they can faft a long while : a Gentleman kept one 
- fourteen days, and all that time. he. only drank a 
little water, and. fwallowed. a few grains of. fand, 
| They feldom ftay more than twenty-four hours in 
one place, for they come in great flocks, and foon a 
deftroy all the worms; this obliges them to feek 
another fituation ; and as foon as the fhow appears 
they almoft all y away to milder climates. 
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