approaching their nests. Some eggs, which probably 

 belonged to this species, were brought to me by a lad, 

 but all he could tell me about them was that he had 

 found them on the ground, and that they were laid by 

 a " pajarita," — an undoubted fact, which, as my readers 

 will admit, was hardly sufficient to entitle them to a 

 place in my egg-collection. 



