148 Wonders of the Bird World 



olive-brown or clay-brown with indistinct black spots and grey 

 underlying ones ; laid on the ground close to the water. Northern 

 Europe and Asia to North America. 



Order Sphenisciformes. (Penguins.) Nest, a rough structure 



of grass on a rock or in a burrow. Eggs two, white. Southern Seas. 



Order Procellariiformes. (Petrels.) Nest, none, or a coarse 



one of grass. Only one egg, white, generally laid in a hole or 



under a rock. Cosmopolitan. 



Order Alciformes. (Auks.) Nest, none. One or two eggs laid 

 in cleft of rock or burrow, or on the bare shelf of a cliff Northern 

 Seas. 



Order Lariformes. (Gulls.) A roughly-constructed nest on a 

 rock or in a marsh, occasionally in a tree. Eggs, two or three in 

 number, double-spotted, usually clay-brown with black markings. 

 Cosmopolitan. 



Order Charadriiformes. 



Sub-Order Attagides. (Seed-Snipes.) Nest on the ground, 

 with scanty lining of grass. Eggs stone-colour, with brown 

 markings. South America. 

 Sub-Order Chionides. (Sheath-bills.) Nest in holes or 

 under rocks. Eggs buffy-white, with numerous purple 

 blotches. Southern Seas. 

 Sub-Order Dromades. (Crab-Plovers.) Nest, none. One 

 white egg, laid at the end of a long tunnel in the sandy 

 shores of the Indian Ocean. 

 Sub-Order Cursorii. (Coursers.) Nest, a hollow in the 

 ground. Eggs two, double-spotted, buff, covered with 

 numerous blackish scribblings. Deserts of Africa and 

 India. 

 Sub-Order Glareol^. (Pratincoles.) Nest and eggs as in 

 the Coursers, but the egg so densely scribbled over as to 

 hide the ground-colour. South Europe, Africa, India, 

 Australia. 

 Sub-Order Parr.f,. (Jacanas.) Nest of weeds and grass, 

 floating in the water. Eggs pear-shaped, numerous, uni- 

 form olive-brown or scrawled with black lines. Africa, 

 India, Australia, South America. 



