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tion. On seeing my birds, the youngest of the Canadians in- 

 formed me " that he knew where there was a lot of those 

 golden plover nests," pointing to the avoset, so I made arrange- 

 ments for him to take me to the place the following day. He 

 told me there was a lake five miles north, and three Sundays 

 ago they had been out there collecting Canada geese eggs, and 

 he saw five or six nests of plover. He described the eggs, and 

 I knew they must have been avosets, so it was agreed that we 

 should visit this lake next morning. 



