. Bird-lore . es with great dexterity, and the shallow algae-rimmed pools furnished them many a juicy wriggler. One thing was evi-dently considered very important by the parents during the colder hours ofthe day: The young must be thoroughly warmed by hovering at intervals notexceeding five minutes. It snowed the night of July 3, and the fourth was cold and gusty with achill wind off the ice which was still 4 feet thick around our ship. The youngestSandpiper was missing that morning and was probably frozen in the snow,although the parents seemed to take equal care of all their children. Soon a
. Bird-lore . es with great dexterity, and the shallow algae-rimmed pools furnished them many a juicy wriggler. One thing was evi-dently considered very important by the parents during the colder hours ofthe day: The young must be thoroughly warmed by hovering at intervals notexceeding five minutes. It snowed the night of July 3, and the fourth was cold and gusty with achill wind off the ice which was still 4 feet thick around our ship. The youngestSandpiper was missing that morning and was probably frozen in the snow,although the parents seemed to take equal care of all their children. Soon after this the largest youngster became very headstrong, insist-ing upon running aboutas long as it pleased with-out being brooded. Hisfathers patience wasworn out at last, so hereached over and peckedhis wayward offspring onthe top of the head untilit was glad to stick itshead down in the grass toescape the blows. Then thefather brooded it with un-usual care and solicitude. ^.^^^^^ sandpiper and her four young. Children of the Midnight Sun 191 A hungry Arctic fox prowled around the home of the Sandpipers the morn-ing of July 5, but the circle of tundra ponds which surrounded the nesting-site proved an effective barrier. Following the marauders tracks along thebeach, we came to where he had eaten a family of young Snow-Buntings thathe had dug out of their nest deep in a crack in a cut bank. Another menace hung over the Sandpiper family in the shape of Ook-pick,the large Snowy Owl. If Ook-pick had waited in orthodox Owl fashion untilnight-time to hunt for his supper, he would have had to wait for over a monthfor night to fall, so, being a sensible bird, he did his hunting mornings and even-ings. Thus, as he sat one morning on his favorite perch, a log that stuck upout of a snowdrift, he saw what he took to be a brown lemming mouse scamper-
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