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Herron, is becoming of less frequent notice, as also are the 

 Rails and Snipes, as the inevitable consequence of irrigation 

 and cultivation of bogs. 



The Plovers, on the contrary, seem to be holding their 

 Numbers well, seeming like the European Pewit or Gray 

 Plover, to find congenial habitat, or at least th epossibilities of 

 existence in drier conditions amid grain and clover fields, as 

 well as in moist soils where summer showers wash out the 

 castings and larvse of earth-worms and jelly-like insect 

 organisms. The Kill Deers are harmless and interesting, and 

 like some of the Sandpipers are rarely wantonly molested by 

 the farmer boy gunner ; and their nests are most frequently 

 on bare ground, a mere slight depression on a smooth knoll 

 in a turnip, mangel or cornfield, trusting seemingly to the 

 earth-like coloration of the bird's dun plumage, and also of 

 the eggs, to the survival and increase of the genus. 



