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formance completely upset the gravity of our company, 
and the climax was reached when the next morning I com¬ 
plained that my head was so sore I had hardly slept. Our 
medical member was amazed that a man who had gone bare¬ 
headed for an hour in that blazing sun after a South Caro¬ 
lina “ oyster-cracker ” should be surprised that his head 
was sore! 
On the same beaches with the Oyster-catcher we shall find 
the Wilson’s Plover, a demure little fellow, gray above like 
the shingle on which he runs, with a dark band across his 
white breast. There is nothing spectacular or assertive about 
him, as with the big Oyster-catcher. He blends well with the 
YOUNG OYSTER-CATCHER 
