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Pictures of Bird Life 



sometimes ^ery close together. Two and tliree eggs is the 

 full ehiteh. JNIany young birds had been hatehed, and 

 dozens of them were dead in the nests, killed by a lieavy 

 storm of wind and rain on tlie pre\'ious day. Tlie eggs 

 of the Sandwieli Terns are very richly coloured and marked, 

 and are nuich more handsome tlian those of the Arctic 

 Terns, as well as nmch larger. They appear shy at the 

 nest, and when sitting the long swallow-like wings are 

 crossed high over tlie back, and the head is very upright. 



After photographing the nest of a Sandwich Tern con- 

 taining an egg, a young bird, and the empty shell from 

 which it had just emerged, the other egg also hatched 



Kest of Oyster-catcher {Hainatopiis ostralegiis). 



