. The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun . everbore feathers. The most probable method of baggingthis bird is to wait till he is on the wing. This hecommences by towering at first in close order, andthen descending, and sweeping, within a few feet ofthe ground, in circles and gyrations. It is whenengaged in these manoeuvres he is most readily shot. THE LAPWING. According to the French proverb, he who hasnot eaten the Lapwing, does not know what game NATUE
. The young sportsman's manual : or, recreations in shooting ; with some account of the game found in the British Islands, and practical directions for the management of dog and gun . everbore feathers. The most probable method of baggingthis bird is to wait till he is on the wing. This hecommences by towering at first in close order, andthen descending, and sweeping, within a few feet ofthe ground, in circles and gyrations. It is whenengaged in these manoeuvres he is most readily shot. THE LAPWING. According to the French proverb, he who hasnot eaten the Lapwing, does not know what game NATUEAL HISTOEY OF THE KNOT. 213 is. This may be all very tnie, for there is no standardof taste; for our part, we think there is more virtuein the thigh of a woodcock, and the bosom of a hen-pheasant, than in a whole \\ilderness of peemts. Old peewits, says Colonel Hawker, a great authorityin feathered amphibia, fly round a dog, in order tomislead him. With a dog, therefore, one may beable to kill several of these birds in the marshes,which they frequent. The afternoon is the besttime, as peemts prefer the uplands during the morn-ing. This is the plover whose eggs are so THE KNOT The Knot (Tringa Canutus, Linn.).—This is thesecond bird in rank of the species Tringa, or Mari-time Sandpipers ; the most beautiful and abundant 214 THE KNOT. of which, along our coasts, is the Purre, or Dunlin,or Stint, of British authors. The Knot, or Red and Ash-coloured Sandpiper,does not, as far as is known, breed in England ; noris it so regular an attendant upon our maritime coastsas the beautiful purre : but at times it visits us ingreat numbers. The seasons for its accustomedappearance are autumn and winter. Its summerand winter plumage, of respective red and ashy hues,has assisted in its various nomenclature ; and itsprimeval estimation as a tit-bit for the palate of ournorthern invader and conqueror, Canute, procured forit its present familiar name of knot, as before is a
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