. Bird-lore . under the cap. Thenest was then covered with a large leaf. She scon returned, and to my sur-prise, sat down exactly in the middle of it. But the leaf did not feel just rightto her, so she began turning herself around and around in the nest. Afterturning a dozen or more times, she seemed satisfied with the new order ofthings and sat quietly. I next removed the leaf and repeated the experiment The Spotted Sandpiper 289 by placing small sticks across the top of the nest. On her return, no attemptwas made to remove them with her bill but they were pushed aside with herbreast when she
. Bird-lore . under the cap. Thenest was then covered with a large leaf. She scon returned, and to my sur-prise, sat down exactly in the middle of it. But the leaf did not feel just rightto her, so she began turning herself around and around in the nest. Afterturning a dozen or more times, she seemed satisfied with the new order ofthings and sat quietly. I next removed the leaf and repeated the experiment The Spotted Sandpiper 289 by placing small sticks across the top of the nest. On her return, no attemptwas made to remove them with her bill but they were pushed aside with herbreast when she settled on the eggs. I wished to get a picture of the old bird standing on a boulder, and, as sheoccasionally went to one several feet away, I covered up the nest completelyso that she would not find anything to sit on, and focused my camera on theboulder. A flat stone was next placed over the nest, completely covering it and hid-ing it from sight. The female returned, as before, and, without hesitating, sat. THE SANDPIPERS HOME down on the stone. Then, not feeling the eggs under her, she got up and beganhunting around for the nest. She made several turns around the nesting-site,always ending at the flat stone, and not finding the eggs, started the searchanew. All the grass clumps within a radius of si.\ or seven feet were tried incubating on the stone a few times but always got o(T after a interesting thing to note is that the female Sandpiper knew the spotwhere her nest ought to be, even though she could not see a trace of stone was then removed from the nest, and when the bird came backagain, she sat on the eggs as if nothing at all had happened. The male nevercame near the nest, although the female did a lot of peeping. Noopportunity was presented to visit the nest again. The Birds of Coblenz By PERLEY M. JENNESS. 29th Engineers, 3d Army of Occupation At the beginning of this brief sketch of the birds of Coblenz as the writer/-
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