extending their wings, and expressing, witii a language as in- 

 telligible as words, their extreme anxiety ; the nest is merely 

 an impression in the heath, grass, or moss, upon which they 

 lay their eggs, their places of breeding being uncultivated 

 moory wastes ; their eggs are always two in number, differ- 

 ing very considerably, as in the accompanying Plate, with 

 many other varieties, some long and narrow, and some with 

 fewer spots ; those figured are selected to show the near ap- 

 proach which some of them make to the eggs of other spe- 

 cies ; the middle figure resembling most closely that of the 

 Whimbrel ; the third figure shows a form which very rarely 

 occurs, and is so much like some of the eggs of the Common 

 Gull as not to be known from them. The time of breeding 

 of the L. Richardsonii is the beginning of June. 



