40 STORIES OF BIRDS AND BEASTS 



"There is no nest. Two eggs are laid on the bare 

 ground, that is about the same color as the bird itself ; 

 and the eggs look too much like streaky pebbles to be 

 easily seen. When the young are hatched they keep 

 still until they are able to fly, and are colored so exactly 

 like the place upon which they rest that it is almost 

 impossible to see them, even if you know where they 

 are." 



" How much there is to learn!" sighed Nat. "I'm 

 afraid you will have to make us a big book instead of 

 a little one, Uncle Roy, to teach us all these things. 

 Olive and Rap have such a start of us. Dodo and I 

 don't know much of anything, and even what I thought 

 I knew about birds isn't very true." 



