. British birds. Birds. iO HKI'J'ISII HIKDS. [vol. IX. On climbing np we found that one egg had gone, exce})t for fragments of shell, and the other had been broken and had a chick in it that had died in the shell. The site was an old Sparrow-Hawk's nest (of last year) in a Scotch lir, this year's nest being in another Scotch fir a few yards away. J. H. Owen. ARRANGEMENT OF EG(;S IN ( OF FIVE OF SNIPE AND LAPWING. Mk. J. H. Owen's note in the last number on Snipe and Lajjwing laying five eggs was most interesting. Once (April .'}Oth. 1910) I saw a Snipe's nest Avith five eggs, and,. Fig
. British birds. Birds. iO HKI'J'ISII HIKDS. [vol. IX. On climbing np we found that one egg had gone, exce})t for fragments of shell, and the other had been broken and had a chick in it that had died in the shell. The site was an old Sparrow-Hawk's nest (of last year) in a Scotch lir, this year's nest being in another Scotch fir a few yards away. J. H. Owen. ARRANGEMENT OF EG(;S IN ( OF FIVE OF SNIPE AND LAPWING. Mk. J. H. Owen's note in the last number on Snipe and Lajjwing laying five eggs was most interesting. Once (April .'}Oth. 1910) I saw a Snipe's nest Avith five eggs, and,. Fig. 1. XEST OF LAPWIXCi TO SHOW ARRAXGEMKNT OI' FIVE EGGS. (Photographed by G. T. Atchison.) as was the case with his nest, ail the eggs wcic liiincd with their points inwards, as is usual with normal clutches of four. I have three times seen Lapwings' nests with five eggs, and on each occasion the eggs weie arranged in different formation. The first nest (April 27th, 1909) had the eggs arranged in a ring, points inwards, as in normal clutches of four (tig. 1). On the second occasion (May 1st, 1910) the eggs were in two rows, three and two resjiectively. points inwards and alternate (fig. 2). Presumably the bird sat lengthwise along the rows. The last time (.\])ril Kith. 1914) one of the eggs was at the bottom of the nest, and the otlici' four were arranged one at each side antl at each end of the. 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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