6¢ THE NATURAL HISTORY 
ground to give the Plovers an opportunity of 
flocking together. As foon as they are collected, 
the fowlers rife fram the ground, make a great 
noife,) and throw their dticks wp in the air; the 
Plovers are affrighted, take to their wings, and 
{kim low, juft above the ground, and fo firike 
again{t the net, which is immedrately Jet fall upon 
them. Frequently the whole flock is taken. But 
one fowler alone, in a’ more. eafy manner, fome-_ 
times takes a confiderable number; he conceals. 
himfelf behind his net, and with a bird-callj made 
of bark, he imitates the cry of the siseishie and 
draws them intohis fnare. on 
Plovers inhabit England the whole year: im 
France they ftay but a little while; they difappear 
as foonas the fnow begins to’ fall ; they return in 
the Spring ‘for a fhort time only, for in the‘Sum- _ 
mer they go into more) northern climates to. 
breed. | 
There are feveral fpecies of the Chansoddudyni 
The ringed Plover is one fpeciés: vitis found in; 
both Continents, from Siberia to:the CapeofiGood 
Hope ; and from the Straits of Magellan, toH ud- 
fon’s Bay, in America. 
_ The Ringed Plovers live near the sae ay 
and follow the tides : they run very faft upon the 
fands, and a tals fhort flights, and twitter loud; if 
| they 
