AND OTHER BIRDS H3 



The loss of this sitting bird's mate could, of 

 course, only recently have occurred; but I 

 believe it had occurred, and that now she was 

 attempting alone to hatch out the doubtless 

 much-incubated eggs, and in her effort even 

 denying herself food. 



Immediately upon emerging from their shells 

 the young, I think, are taken down to the beach, 

 not at first to feed themselves, but for the 

 shelter and cover of the intricate dunes. 



On the spent waves' very edge and where the 

 bubbles of their thin wash instantly disappear 

 the mature birds may be watched feeding on 

 stuff exposed by the falling tide, not probing 

 as the granite hill bird had done, and as the bill 

 formation of the species might suggest that the 

 breed should always do, but very delicately 

 gathering their meals from the surface. 



