. The oist . s, both offour eggs and two sets of Flicker offive and six eggs respectively, as wellas a nest full of young Flickers justready to leave the nest. One nest ofCrested Flycatcher was composedlargely of wing tips (bone included)and pieces of skin, with the feathersattached of the Knot, that had nodoubt been illegally killed, for as lateas June 9th, there were still smallflocks of Knot and Turnstones uponthe beaches, and I was told that theywere being shot daily. Other visits to Sandy Island onJune 17th and 19th showed the effectsof the eggers. Only at the farthestend, where the egger
. The oist . s, both offour eggs and two sets of Flicker offive and six eggs respectively, as wellas a nest full of young Flickers justready to leave the nest. One nest ofCrested Flycatcher was composedlargely of wing tips (bone included)and pieces of skin, with the feathersattached of the Knot, that had nodoubt been illegally killed, for as lateas June 9th, there were still smallflocks of Knot and Turnstones uponthe beaches, and I was told that theywere being shot daily. Other visits to Sandy Island onJune 17th and 19th showed the effectsof the eggers. Only at the farthestend, where the eggers would have towalk about five miles, were the BlackSkimmers unmolested. Most of thenests at other places were empty orcontained but one or two eggs. An-other nest of Oystercatcher wasseen; it contained two eggs and hadno lining whatever, the eggs beinglaid in a depression in the sand. Onthe 19th, we found two more nests ofCrested Flycatcher containing fourand five eggs respectively. The Fly- THE OOLOOIST 219. Nest and Eggs of the Piping Plover —Photo by Dr. R. B. Bales catcher, at least in this locality, seemsto have a decided preference for sas-safras trees, although I found nestsin Wild cherry and one in a cedar treeon the home island. A couple of days later, we again vis-ited the island where the Willet nestwas found. A herd of half wild cat-tle, led by a belligerent bull and alarge flock of sheep roam over it. Wevisited a medium sized colony ofBlack Skimmers, but the eggers hadrobbed it so often that the birds hadgiven up in disgust, evidently findingit too hard work to fight both manand However we did find anest of Gull billed Tern containingthree eggs. The nest was well linedwith bits of shell and short lengths ofmarsh grass stalks, and was well con- cealed upon a shell strewn beach, wellback from the water. This variety ofTern is the most pugnacious of thefour varieties observed and willcharge and dart at one repeatedlywhile near the nest and will follow thein
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