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same. I found the nest of a Stock-Dove at Felsted, Essex, 

 during the last week in June, 1912, and it then contained two 

 eggs. On July 2nd I visited the nest again and found that 

 one egg had been sucked and the shell pushed on one side. 

 The other egg hatched on July 6th. On July 21st when I 

 examined the nest again the young pigeon was fairly well 

 fiedged but unable to fly, and there were two more eggs in the 

 nest. J. H. Owen. 



UNPIGMENTED EGGS OF THE RINGED PLOVER. 



Blakeney Point is a long shingle-spit on the north coast 

 of Norfolk. Except for the occasional presence of two 

 house-boats, the place is uninhabited, and for miles the 

 ceaseless screaming of countless Terns, with the occasional 

 plaintive whistle of a Ringed Plover is all that disturbs the 

 peace of shingle and dune. Here, on the moss-grown saltings, 



NEST OF RIN'OHD PLOVER WITH WHITE E(JUS. 

 {Pliotographed by W. Rowan.) 



behind the dunes, a i)air of Ringed Plovers (Charadrius h. 

 hiaticula) had continually been seen and heard, but no 

 nest had been found till this day Avhen my friend almost 

 Avalked into a clutch of three Avhite eggs in a little sandy 

 cup. They were certainly Ringed Plover's, for no other 



