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heather, placed in a slight hollow and lined with a few 

 blades of dry grass orleaves. 



The eggs are four in number, placed points inwards, 

 and are described as varying from creamy white to 

 buff in ground colour, blotched and spotted with rich 

 dark brown, and with underlying markings of pinkish 

 brown and grey. 



The Greenshank will become tame in confinement, 

 and is a hardy bird. 



DUNLIN. 



TRINGA ALPINA. 



Family Charadrhd^. Genus Tringa. 



Purre — Dunlin Sandpiper — Stint Churr — Sea Lark — Least 

 Snipe. 



This is a bird whose appearance undergoes such 

 complete change in summer and winter that it was 



