Their Eggs and Nests. \*j\ 



think, how it is produced — is variously called hum- 

 ming, bleating, drumming, buzzing. To me, the first 

 time I heard it, and before I knew to what origin to 

 assign it, the impression produced was precisely that 

 of the sound made by a large Bee, entangled in some 

 particular place and unable to extricate itself ; and I 

 remember spending some minutes in trying to discover 

 the supposed insect. The eggs are usually four, placed 

 in a very sliglit and inartificial nest on the ground 

 near some tuft of rushes or other water-herbage. 

 They are of a greenish-olive hue, blotched and spotted 

 with two or three shades of brown, the deepest being 

 very dark. The old ones are said to be very jealous 

 and careful of their young. Many couples are often 

 killed on the moors in this district on or just after the 

 12th of August— Z^^;^. % plate IX, 



JACK SNIPE. — {Gallmago gallimda ; formerly, 

 Scot op ax galliiiuld). 



Judcock, Half Snipe — A little bird, very often seen 

 quite late in the spring, but no specimen of whose ^gg 

 undoubtedly laid in Britain has, as far as I know, ever 

 yet been produced. It may breed here, in some few 

 instances, but none such are yet ascertained. No 

 notice of its eggs can consequently be inserted here. 



RED- BREASTED ^l^W^—^Macroramphus griseus), 

 " A very rare straggler." 



BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPER— (Z/;;/?V^/^ 

 platyrhynca ; formerly, Tringa platyrhynca). 



Of very rare occurrence. 



