
OFUBUAMUDAS aut _ 9. 
They come back in the Spring, but always in 
flocks. A Plover is feldom feen alone ; indeed, 
there are feldom lefs than fifty in a flock. Whilft 
they are on the ground, they are in conftant. mo-_ 
tion, always feeking for worms. Several of them 
ftand fentinel,. or watch, whilft the reft are em-= _ 
ployed in feeding. On the leaft danger’ thefe 
fentinels make a fhrill noife, and at that fignal they 
all fy away. They fly with the wind, and their 
_ manner of flying is very fingular. They range 7 
themfelves in a line, not in length, one after 
another; but in rank, or fide by fide, fo that they 
form narrow lines in theair of a great. extent: 
fometimes feveral of thefe lines are feen at once. 
“When the Plovers are on the ground, they 
run much, and very faft. .. They continue in flocks 
all the day, and only feparate at night: every one — 
roofts on a little fpot:by itfelf; but by day break, 
that which awakes firft, or that which is the moft 
indultrious, calls the reft. They all come. toge- 
ther at) this call. This is ‘the time which the 
fowlers chufe to endeavour to take them. Before 
day they ftretch a long net juft oppofite the fpot 
where they obferved the plovers rooft the evening 
before. The fowlers furround them in confider- 
able numbers ; and when the Plover, who awakes 
firft, ‘aie to call, the fowlers lie along. the 
‘ground 
