DUNLIN. 



PUREE . DUNLIN SANDPIPER. SEA SNIPE. PLOVER S PAGE. STINT. 

 LEAST SNIPE. SEA LARK. 



PLATE CLXXVIII. FIG. I. 



Tringa rarialilis, SELBT. JENTNS. 



Tringa aJpina, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Tringa cine? its, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



THE nest of the Dunlin is usually located under the shelter of some 

 tuft or small bush, in any dry spot on marshy moors and heaths, 

 mosses or salt marshes, as well as by the sea. It is often concealed, 

 intentionally or unintentionally, with great success, so as to be very 

 difficult to find. Sometimes, however, it is fashioned upon the open 

 grass which grows green and verdant here and there among the dark 

 heather, ' lonely, lonesome, cool, and green/ A few bits of moss, 

 withered heath, or grass, form its careless lining, if there be any it, 

 the same materials being for the most part merely rounded into form 

 a natural cradle. 



The eggs are four in number, of a greenish white, greenish grey, 

 or dull green colour, blotted and spotted with a darker and a lighter 

 shade of brown, most so towards and at the larger end. Some have 

 the ground a light blue inclining to dull white, others a clear light 

 green richly spotted with light brown. They are deposited in the nest 

 with the smaller ends inwards. 



