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rocks covered with sea-weed, though at high tide they 

 pass up the rivers and streams to the neighbouring 

 meadows or saltings. The foreign range includes all 

 Europe, the extreme north of Africa, and also northern 

 Asia, though in the last-named it does not extend north- 

 ward to about the Arctic Circle as it does in Europe. 



Redshank's nest 



The Redshank is a most vociferous bird, and, when 

 itself disturbed, disturbs all its kin ; in the breeding 

 season it is specially noisy, hastening to meet an 

 intruder and seeing him " off the premises." The 

 nest of a little herbage is cunningly hidden in a tuft 

 of grass or rushes, which are often twisted together to 

 hide the four stone-coloured eggs marked with purple- 

 brown ; more rarely the contents are open to view. 



