PLATE II 

 COMMON CURLEW. Numenius arquata 



May 26th, 1894. I came across this nest on the shoulder of a hill near 

 Broughton, in Peeblesshire, just as the young birds were coming out of the 

 shells, so I marked it, and hastened home for my camera. When I arrived 

 at the nest, all the young birds were hatched and huddled in a bunch in the 

 nest ; the broken shells of the eggs lay all round the nest, and the old birds 

 flew round, wild with anxiety for the fate of their young. 



I secured two photos from different points, and having packed up my 

 camera I crouched down some little way from the nest. In a few minutes 

 I heard the little birds cheeping, and they finally left the nest one after 

 another and hid themselves in the grass. I looked about for them for a few 

 minutes, but only succeeded in finding one bird, crouched down beside a small 

 stone. 



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