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however, were photographed on July 5th, as late 

 as nine o'clock in the evening. I had searched long 

 and fruitlessly for some young Curlews to photo- 

 graph, and at length, in an upper Donside glen, 

 came upon a Curlew which evidently had young 

 ones, although I failed at first to discover them. 

 The young birds were in a grass field bordering 



YOUNG CURLEW. 



the road, and as long as the intruder kept walking 

 or cycling along the road, the mother bird took 

 no notice of him ; so I cycled past as if I did not 

 know there was such a thing as a Curlew, all the 

 while keeping the tail of my eye on the bird and 

 her young. When I had reached the point nearest 

 to them I suddenly dismounted and immediately 

 the Curlew rose with a wild cry, and all the young 

 ones crouched flat in the grass. But I had care- 

 fully marked the exact spot, and had no difficulty 

 in finding the downy chicks. Meanwhile the Curlew 



