. British birds. Birds. W. FARREN: STONE - CURLEW. 303 other Plovers are not deficient in protective devices ; they all practise the crouching habit to a certain extent, and all assimilate well with their surroundings. But the dis- tinguishing character, which places the Stone-Curlew in a class by itself, is its perfect mastery of the crouching habit. While the young of Plovers and other ground nesting birds run to, and take advantage of the slightest cover by crouching, the young Stone-Curlew can hide. Fig. 1.—The crouching attitude of newly-hatched young. more effectually, by an extreme phas
. British birds. Birds. W. FARREN: STONE - CURLEW. 303 other Plovers are not deficient in protective devices ; they all practise the crouching habit to a certain extent, and all assimilate well with their surroundings. But the dis- tinguishing character, which places the Stone-Curlew in a class by itself, is its perfect mastery of the crouching habit. While the young of Plovers and other ground nesting birds run to, and take advantage of the slightest cover by crouching, the young Stone-Curlew can hide. Fig. 1.—The crouching attitude of newly-hatched young. more effectually, by an extreme phase of the same attitude, on the barest ground. While in all other Plovers the parents endeavour to save their young, partly by uttering warning cries, and partly by endeavouring to distract and draw off the suspected enemy, the Stone-Curlew trusts entirely to the crouching of its young and remains silent and out of the way. Human intelligence is not taken account of in natural devices, but still one would have thought, considering natural enemies only, that the young of the Ringed Plover, and other birds with small and protectively coloured broods, would be more likely to. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original London, Witherby & Co
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