. . I was walking through a pasture,when one of these birds approached the roadside and withupraised wings alighted on a fence post and eyed mecuriously. Her plaintive alarm note was a quavering whis-tle quite in keeping with the way she folded her longpointed wings. Two years later, when in the same locality,I was walking against the wind one warm day, whena bobolink fluttered to the grass six feet ahead. Partingthe grass and weeds, I decided to secure this nest for agroup, and settled myself preparatory to making a fewnotes. After
. . I was walking through a pasture,when one of these birds approached the roadside and withupraised wings alighted on a fence post and eyed mecuriously. Her plaintive alarm note was a quavering whis-tle quite in keeping with the way she folded her longpointed wings. Two years later, when in the same locality,I was walking against the wind one warm day, whena bobolink fluttered to the grass six feet ahead. Partingthe grass and weeds, I decided to secure this nest for agroup, and settled myself preparatory to making a fewnotes. After some fifteen minutes I placed one handbehind me to arise, when my finger-tips touched somethingsoft, and a bartramian warbled from a tussock within anarms length. She was a crippled bird, and her notesindicated the utmost distress. During the nesting season the male bartramian mountshigh in the air, and on quivering wings utters a long-drawn-out, plaintive whistle. This sound, when first heard, usuallyproduces an uncanny effect upon the listener, who is unable. UPL \ND PLOVER, SHORE BIRDS 139 to identify its author, which appears outlined against thesky as a mere speck. Presently the bird volplanes to theearth and runs nimbly over the grass in a most unconcernedmanner. The four large, pear-shaped eggs rest in a grass-linedcavity with their points together. The background of theegg varies from creamy-buff to a decided clay color. Theeggs are marked with spots and blotches of dark brown andlilac. SPOTTED SANDPIPER The Spotted Sandpiper, Tip-up, or Peetweet is proba-bly the commonest and most familiar of our small wadingbirds. It is a typical representative of the large family ofshore birds, and is found from Brazil northward to the Arc-tic regions about Hudson Bay and upper Alaska. Theybreed throughout their North American range, spendingthe winter about the Gulf Coast and southward. Scarcelyany of our artificial lakes or lagoons in our parks are with-out a pair of these restless
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