KILLDEER PLOVER. 169 



KILLDEER PLOVER. 



PLATE CLV*. FIGURE I. 

 (Egialitis rod/era, LINNAEUS. 



nest, is, as with many other of such birds, 

 a mere hollow in the ground, lined only, so far 

 as it is lined at all, with a few bits of dry grass, 

 among which are found small pieces of shells, but 

 these, I should imagine, introduced accidentally, and 

 not intentionally; sometimes it is made on a heap of 

 seaweed. 



The eggs, generally not more than three in number, 

 are of a yellowish stone-colour, spotted and variously 

 marked with black. 



VOL. II. 



