. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . 1 Botany of the Eastern Borders, by Dr. Johnston, p. a-^r^^t^ LIMICOLM. ( 231 ) CHARADRIIDM THE OYSTER CATCHER SEA PIE, SEA PIET, PIANET, MUSSEL PICKER. Hcematopus »)ca ^itu The seamew, seapye, gull, and curlew, here doe keepe,As searching every shole and ivatchiiig every deepe,To find the floating fry, with their sharpe piercing suddenly they take by stoupingfrom their height. Drayto
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . 1 Botany of the Eastern Borders, by Dr. Johnston, p. a-^r^^t^ LIMICOLM. ( 231 ) CHARADRIIDM THE OYSTER CATCHER SEA PIE, SEA PIET, PIANET, MUSSEL PICKER. Hcematopus »)ca ^itu The seamew, seapye, gull, and curlew, here doe keepe,As searching every shole and ivatchiiig every deepe,To find the floating fry, with their sharpe piercing suddenly they take by stoupingfrom their height. Drayton, Polyolbion. The coast of Berwickshire is so precipitous that it is notsuited to the habits of the Oyster Catcher, and on thataccount the bird is not much seen on the shores of thecounty. Mr. Hardy records that it is sometimes noticedin the neighbourhood of Eedheugh and Siccar Point inspring and autumn.^ It is fond of frequenting sandy bays,with banks of shingle, where it feeds on molluscs andmarine insects. Mr. John Thomson has informed me thatan Oyster Catcher was seen at Mertoun in December William Jardine records that a specimen was killed atDryburgh. 1 Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vol. vii. p. 110; also vol. ix. p. 404.
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