BIRD NESTING. 



at a little distance rises into the air, fluttering around so as to call 

 off the attention of the intruder. When the hen has quitted the 

 nest the eggs are difficult to discover, as they closely resemble 

 the ground and dead leaves in colour. The newly-hatched young 



THE COMMON PEEWIT, OR LAPWING. 



are still more like the colour of the earth, and if a Lapwing with 

 her brood is disturbed, she either rises at once into the air, or 

 else reels and tumbles along the ground in the most artful manner, 

 with the appearance of being wounded, whilst the nestlings go off 

 in different directions, hide themselves amongst the herbage, and 



