British zoology . GOLDEN PLOVER. Class. II. G O L D E N P L O V E R. 475 we have feen fome with black bellies, others with amixture of black and white; others with bluilh legs,and fome with a fmall claw in the place of the hindtoe. They lay four eggs, fliarply pointed at the lefferend, of a dirty white color, and irregularly mark-ed, efpecially at the thicker end, with black blotch-es and fpots. It breeds on feveral of our unfre-quented mountains; and is very common on thofeof the ifle of Rum, and others of the loftier He-brides. They make a fhrill whittling noife : andmay be inticed within mo
British zoology . GOLDEN PLOVER. Class. II. G O L D E N P L O V E R. 475 we have feen fome with black bellies, others with amixture of black and white; others with bluilh legs,and fome with a fmall claw in the place of the hindtoe. They lay four eggs, fliarply pointed at the lefferend, of a dirty white color, and irregularly mark-ed, efpecially at the thicker end, with black blotch-es and fpots. It breeds on feveral of our unfre-quented mountains; and is very common on thofeof the ifle of Rum, and others of the loftier He-brides. They make a fhrill whittling noife : andmay be inticed within mot by a fkilful imitator ofthe note, This lpecies, on account of its fpots, has beenfuppofed to have been the Partialis of Arifiotle: buthis account of the bird makes no mention of thatdiftinction : perhaps he thought that the name im-plied it. The Romans feem to have been unac-quainted with the plover: for the name never onceoccurs in any of their writings. We derive it fromthe French Pluvier, pource quon k prend mieux entemps p
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