64 BIRDS OF P. E. ISLAND. 



The bird lays its eggs on the bare shingle, as a 

 gull does on the sand, and it uses all its powers 

 of feint and decoy to allure the stranger away 

 from its strangely exposed treasures. But though 

 so exposed, they are very difficult to discover, so 

 well do they mimic the colors of the grey, sun- 

 bleached shingle and sand. Indeed the color of 

 the bird itself so closely resembles that of the 

 shingle, that when it squats down on the beach, 

 it is impossible for the eye to distinguish it. . 



The Kildeer Plover is a larger bird than the 

 Ring -neck, and has two black bands on its 

 breast. It stays late, being here the last of October. 



NORTHERN PHALAROPE. 



( Lohipes hyperboreiis ) 



This bird appears in our harbors in late fall, 

 when other water -fowl are getting scarce. It 

 appears in flocks of several hundreds, flying 

 about in the wildest manner — dashing into the 

 water all together, and as they do so, making the 

 spray fly, dipping under the surface in an extreme 

 hurry, then rising to the wing again and off to 



