4<S DUNLIN. 



DUNLIN. 



PURRE. DUNLIN SANDPIPER. SEA SNIPE. STINT. 

 PLOVER' S-PAGE. LEAST SNIPE. SEA LARK. 



PLATE CLXXVIII. FIGURE I. 



7'ringa variabilis, SELBY. JENYNS. 



Tringa alpina, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



Tringa cinclus, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



E nest of the Dunlin is usually located under 

 the shelter of some tuft or small bush, in any dry 

 spot on moist 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 in 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 



