()4 mans or P. re. ISLAND.

The bird lays its eggs on the bare shingle, as a gull does on the sand, and it uses all its powers of feint and decoy to allure the stranger away from its strangely exposed treasures. But though so exposed, they are very difficult to discover7 so well do they mimic the colors of the grey, sun- bleached shingle and sand. Indeed the color of the bird itself so closely resembles that of the shingle, that when it squats clown on the beach, it is impossible for the eye to distinguish it. The Kildeer Plover is a larger bird than the Ring-neck, and has two black bands on its

breast. It stays late, being here the last of October.

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'l‘his bird appears in our harbors in late fall, when other water-fowl are getting scarce. It appears in flocks of several hundreds, flying about in the wildest manneitmdashing into the water all together, and as they do so, making the spray fly, dipping under the surface in an extreme

hurry, then rising to the wing again and off to