PLATE I 

 STONE-CURLEW. (Edicnemus scolopax 



May 28//r, 1898. Suffolk. On a visit in Suffolk I observed two or three 

 Stone-Curlews flying about on a stretch of heath in a small valley near some 

 large pine woods. Having obtained the necessary permission, I armed myself 

 with my camera and glasses and paid a visit to the heath. As I walked 

 across some bare patches of ground covered with flints, a Stone-Curlew 

 rose about twenty yards from me and flew straight away, being shortly joined 

 by her mate. I marked the spot and walked up to it, almost stepping on the 

 two eggs, which were laid in a slight depression in the sandy soil among 

 the scattered flints. I took a photograph of it and retired some distance off 

 to await the return of the birds. In about twenty minutes the female flew 

 past, and wheeling round alighted some twenty yards from the nest. She 

 stood there for three or four minutes, and then ran straight from the nest 

 for about thirty yards with her head and neck depressed ; she then stopped 

 and squatted down on the ground for nearly a quarter of an hour. At last 

 she rose and ran swiftly to a slight knoll, on which she stood motionless for 

 some time with head erect, evidently watching me, as I was not properly 

 concealed. Just as I was thinking she would fly away again, she stopped, 

 ran straight to the nest, and settled herself on the eggs. I then rose and 

 walked slowly round her from one side to the other, passing within ten yards 

 of her as she lay flattened out on her eggs, watching me with her curiously 

 large eyes. 



