NORTHWARD WITH THE SHORE-BIRDS 237 



Owing to the wind and cold, tlie chick needed brooding, 

 and the devoted little mother was not slow to respond. In 

 a few moments, finding that I kept still and did not hurt her, 

 she came up and nesded down on the sand close beside her 



RING-NECKED PLOVER AND YOUNG. "THE LITTLE FELLOW SCURRIED IN 

 UNDER THE MATERNAL BREAST " 



darling, and the little fellow scurried in under the maternal 

 breast. Now and then she ran off, but soon returned, stood 

 beside the chick, and then cuddled it some more. Meanwhile 

 I was working the camera assiduously, photographing her 

 and her mate in all sorts of attitudes, securing thereby an 

 uncommonly interesting series of eighteen pictures — and 

 using up my last plate. 



