. Bird lore . turnand, alighting with waddling steps, walk toward their nests and settle them-selves on their eggs with a chuckling note apparently indicative of satisfac-tion. At times the much larger male bird would stand beside his matewhile she attended to the duties of incubation. When a young bird was hatched the parent at once took the egg-shellwhence it had emergedand carried it far upthe beach ; an interest-ing habit evidently ofmore importance to atree-nesting bird whichwould avoid advertisingthe young bird aboveby the egg-shell below,than to a ground-nest-ing species. Possiblyit may
. Bird lore . turnand, alighting with waddling steps, walk toward their nests and settle them-selves on their eggs with a chuckling note apparently indicative of satisfac-tion. At times the much larger male bird would stand beside his matewhile she attended to the duties of incubation. When a young bird was hatched the parent at once took the egg-shellwhence it had emergedand carried it far upthe beach ; an interest-ing habit evidently ofmore importance to atree-nesting bird whichwould avoid advertisingthe young bird aboveby the egg-shell below,than to a ground-nest-ing species. Possiblyit may indicate a for-mer arboreal habit onthe part of the Skim-mer (see June BiRD-Lore). The young are borncovered with a sandy-colored down which is dry at the end of two hours, when they are suffici-ently strong to crawl from the nest to the shelter of a neighboring weed,which, in the absence of the parent, they seem to seek instinctively. Atthis time if the sun be shining the prolonged absence of the parent will. SKlMiVlER ON NEST 112 Bird - Lore
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