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formance completely upset the gravity of our company, 

 and the climax was reached when the next morning I com- 

 plained that my head was so sore I had hardly slept. Our 

 medical member was amazed that a man who had gone bare- 

 headed for an hour in that blazing sun after a South Caro- 

 lina " oyster-cracker " should be surprised that his head 

 was sore ! 



On the same beaches with the Oyster-catcher we shall find 

 the Wilson's Plover, a demure little fellow, gray above like 

 the shingle on which he runs, with a dark band across his 

 white breast. There is nothing spectacular or assertive about 

 him, as with the big Oyster-catcher. He blends well with the 



YOUNG OYSTER-CATCHER 



