SHORE-BIRD LOITERERS 



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Upland Plover, the Killdeer Plover, the Spotted Sandpiper, 

 and the Willet. I shall here write of only the last two of 

 these comparative loiterers, because I have secured life photo- 

 graphs of them. 



No shore-bird is more widely known than the Spotted 



SCENE ON THE WILLET KEY. PAIR OF WILLETS AND A 

 WILSON'S PLOVER 



Sandpiper, or " Teeter," the little bird that frequents the 

 farm, and lays its four pointed eggs among the crops, being 

 satisfied with any watery margin, whether it be of brook, 

 pool, lake, or ocean. I have found almost numberless nests, 

 from the far south to the Magdalen Islands, in all sorts of 

 situations. Especially on small islands, indifferently on fresh 

 or salt water, they breed in what amounts to scattering colo- 

 nies, dozens of pairs to a few hundred acres. Place the camera 



