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ping, so that it was not easy to catch, but by patience 

 I effected it. Also I followed the movements of a 

 minute red active bug, which I believe to have been the 

 same as that we call the money-spinner here at home. 

 . A pair of turnstones had made many sham nests, and 

 one was ready for eggs. A Lapland bunting's nest, 

 though empty, was also quite finished. 



A grouse was sitting on twelve eggs, of which I took 

 six. 



All the while that I was prowling round this part, a 

 pair of glaucous gulls sat and watched me, and once 



the male bird came and mobbed me slightly. So I 

 thought they had a nest ; but search as carefully as ever 

 I could I failed to come upon it. 



I chanced on a pool where there was one red-throated 

 diver and a pair of wigeon. A fine yellow-ringed 

 humble-bee came booming round me, but I could not 

 take him, for I had no net. 



I had been probing carefully along a line of drift as 

 one who looks for gold, till my back ached with stoopino-. 

 Straightening myself up I suddenly saw just in front of 

 me a veritable flower-garden — a bank green with grasses 



