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the parent at the nest even came back and brooded the 

 moist chicks while I was sitting under a halo of mos- 

 quitoes only a few yards aA\'ay. It was typical of the 

 ironies of bird-photography that, during my stay on the 

 Yenesei, I obtained a series of such a wary species as 

 the C4olden Plover with no preparation, while I failed 

 egregiously to photograph such a common species as 

 the Lapland Bunting at the nest. 



ASIATIC GOLDEN PLOVER BROODING YOUNG. 

 [Photographed by Maud D. Haviland.) 



As soon as the young ones were able to run alone, 

 which, roughly speaking, was about July 20th, the birds 

 left the higher ground and began to collect into flocks 

 in the marshy places of the tundra. I am inclined to 

 think that the young birds must need to wash and 

 drink a great deal, as otherwise it is not easy to under- 

 stand why all the waders of the tundra should leave 

 the nesting-sites so early and wander down to the 

 sphagnum swamps. Some of the Asiatic Golden Plover 



