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white. Legs, toes, and claws dusky-black, slightly 

 tinted with green. 



The female differs little from the male, but is, as 

 a rule, slightly larger, and has a deeper call-note. 



Situation and Locality. On the ground, well 

 hidden by a tuft of ling, heather, or tussock of 

 coarse grass, in boggy, marshy, tarn-besprinkled 

 parts of moors and heaths in the north and ex- 



YOUNG DUNLINS HIDING. 



treme west of England ; also in Scotland and 

 Ireland. 



Materials. A few straws or bents forming a 

 slight lining to the hollow in which the eggs are 

 deposited. 



Eggs. Four, pear-shaped ; ground-colour varies 

 from greenish-white to cream or buff of different 

 shades, blotched and spotted with reddish- and 

 blackish-brown, and underlying markings of grey. 

 Size about 1.3 by .95 in. (See Plate IX.) 



Time. May and June. 



Remarks. Resident, but migratory, partially 

 and locally that is to say, more birds visit our 

 coasts in winter than stay to breed, and those that 



