. Essays and photographs. Some birds of the Canary Islands and South Africa . KITTLITZS SAND-PLOVER AND YOUNG. (J^giaiitis pecuaria.)G 0 TWO KINDS OF ILOVER 167 attention to the bird it will run leisurely a few yardsfurther on and then give another little bow, or duck ofthe head. This may be all very well, but it does nothelp you to find the eggs, so, after making quite surethat there is no semblance of a nest you again retirea little distance to enable you to solve the bird soon returns to the same spot, shuffles for asecond or two very quickly with its feet, and then sitsdown. Th
. Essays and photographs. Some birds of the Canary Islands and South Africa . KITTLITZS SAND-PLOVER AND YOUNG. (J^giaiitis pecuaria.)G 0 TWO KINDS OF ILOVER 167 attention to the bird it will run leisurely a few yardsfurther on and then give another little bow, or duck ofthe head. This may be all very well, but it does nothelp you to find the eggs, so, after making quite surethat there is no semblance of a nest you again retirea little distance to enable you to solve the bird soon returns to the same spot, shuffles for asecond or two very quickly with its feet, and then sitsdown. This time you make no mistake about theexact place, and you locate the position of the birdwith the aid of two little bits of herbao-e grrowintr near ;again you approach, the bird rises as before, and repeatsthe same performance, standing a little way off, andlooking as though it would help you if it could, andif you would only tell it what you were looking ground is quite undisturbed, and there is no signof a nest or eggs ; the little bits of drift-wood and bark,tho
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