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 SCUKENKl) AM) OPEN NESTS OF REDSHANKS. 



BY 



C. W. COLTHRUP. 



In Miss Havilancrs most interesting notes on the Grey 

 Phalarope {antea, pp. 11-16), her reference to the screening 

 of its eggs by the Redshank reminded me that this is not 

 always done, as the photographs here reproduced prove. 

 I'l Romney ^T'lish the eggs are frequontly laid on the bare 



Fii!. ± SL'KKKNKU NEST OF i; I.I isl I A N K. 

 {PJwtographed by L'. W. Culthrup.) 



shingle, sometimes in the centre of a straggling piece of sloe 

 bush (tig. 1), notwithstanding that long grass is near at hand 

 and is taken advantage of by other members of the species. 



In a marsh in Hampshire some Redshanks lay their eggs 

 on the grass quite openly like the Lapwing, simply making 

 a " scratch out " and lining it with grass : others make a 

 hollow in the heather and line it with lichen with no attemi)t 

 at concealment, while some make their nest and lay their 

 eggs in a tuft of grass, A\itli a icuiilar "" nm "" lo it ami well 

 concealed (iig. 2). 



