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THE BELTED PIPING PLOVER. 
Professor James H. Hine was doing the honors of the new biological labor- 
atory at Cedar Point, our party of three came upon a strange Plover, as 
he danced before the lapping waves 
ee hE 
Taken at Cedar Point. 
NEST AND EGGS OF THE BELTED PIPING PLOVER. 
stole to her nest. 
Photo by the Author. 
on the neighboring shore. A hundred 
yards or so be- 
low we saw an- 
other, evidently 
of the same spe- 
cies, entertain- 
ing his mate 
with a flight 
song. He would 
circle round 
and round with 
Ghulbihvacimannare: 
wings, describ- 
ing curves a 
hundred feet or 
so in diameter, 
and whistling 
the while a pro- 
longed soft note 
with a rising in- 
flection. — Pro- 
fessor Jones 
was detailed on 
the case and 
soon came back 
reporting a nest 
of four eggs,— 
that shown in 
the accompany- 
ing illustration. 
He had con- 
cealed himself 
quietly in a 
clump of wil- 
lows, . anid 
marked the fe- 
male as she 
The bird had settled once in the middle of the pathless 
sand, but upon some sudden misgiving had scampered away again, without 
the astute observer's suspecting that she had visited her eggs. Upon her 
return, however, to the same spot, the truth became evident. 
