EGGS OF STONE-CURLEW. 
OXLEY GRABHAM, M.A., M.B.0.U. 
THE above photograph is of special interest to Yorkshire ornitholo 
for of nest there is 
gists, representing as it does the eggs in situ, 
practically none, a mere scratching amongst the stones sufficing at 
the most, of the Stone-Curlew, Thickknee, oF Norfolk Plover 
(Bdicnemus sco lopax Gmel.). These eggs were laid this spring by 
One of the two or three last remaining pairs of the birds which still 
i 2 y the 
breed in Yorkshire. For very obvious reasons I do not give 
breed, and who very courteously showed them to me, and gave me 
every facility for observing them. Suffice it to say that those to 
whom the district is known are all most interested in keeping it 
secret, and the birds are protected as far as it is possible to do so. 
t is a thousand pities that at this time of day one has only to 
Mention the secluded corners where our rarer birds still breed, in 
diminishing numbers, to ensure their being very speedily decimated 
y the greed of the collector. The Stone-Curlew still breeds pretty 
Plentifully j in some of our English counties, and I believe the dealer's 
ordinary price for an egg of the same does not exceed the — 
One shilling ; but because there are only one Or two pairs leit! 
Sept. 1897. Ss 
