. Boys and birds; or, Miss Truat's mission . the Shore-birds with which we are most famil-iar, perhaps the Kill-deer Plover is the best knownby those residing away from the ocean, and it may31 362 BOYS AND BIRDS. be taken as a type of the plover family in color andform. It is found around all our ponds and swamps,where it runs fitfully along, crying, hill-deer, kill-deer,accompanied by a peculiar jerking motion of the tailwhen pausing for a moment, which it does every fewrods. The nest is in some slight hollow near thebank or among the tussocks of grass, and is oddlymade up of pebbles, bits of
. Boys and birds; or, Miss Truat's mission . the Shore-birds with which we are most famil-iar, perhaps the Kill-deer Plover is the best knownby those residing away from the ocean, and it may31 362 BOYS AND BIRDS. be taken as a type of the plover family in color andform. It is found around all our ponds and swamps,where it runs fitfully along, crying, hill-deer, kill-deer,accompanied by a peculiar jerking motion of the tailwhen pausing for a moment, which it does every fewrods. The nest is in some slight hollow near thebank or among the tussocks of grass, and is oddlymade up of pebbles, bits of shells, sticks, and straw—anything that can be most readily scraped eggs are four, creamy-yellow, with abundantblotching. (Plate III., Fig. 5.) The Upland Plover (Fig. 101) is much like thekill-deer in appearance, but differs in preferring the pastures and uplands to themoist eggs ofthis speciesare also largerand lighter incolor. (PlateII., Fig. 4.) In Eng-land they havea small speciesof this familycalled the Dot-. Fig. 101.— Upland Plover. BOYS AND BIRDS. 363 feral Plover (Fig. 102), winch has become a by-wordfor stupidity. It is described as wanting in the activ-ity and Bpright- JL>
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