NESTLINGS OF FOREST AND. MARSH 
almost immediately, and led or drove them 
toward the bushes, believing herself safe, yet 
Kildeer and young one day old 
still suspicious and wary. 
The father was off in the 
distance trying to keep my 
attention fixed upon him 
where I was, three hundred feet away. , Phe 
young were beautiful creatures, marked with 
dark rings around their necks like the parents, 
and ran like little chickens, peeping in the 
same high key but with an upward inflec- 
tion, making two distinct syllables of the 
mote, ““ pec-ep.. 
The mother was so timid it was difficult 
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