WATCHING RINGED PLOVERS, ETC. 29 



No, not quite motionless. Ever and anon there 

 comes the strained, grating call -note of another 

 peewit, and then this one rears up the body and 

 jerks the head a little back, then jerks it flexibly- 

 forward again. At first he does this in silence, but 





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soon answering the cry. You see the thin little black 

 bill divide as he bobs, and the sound comes out of 

 it as though drawn by a wire — so roopy and raspy 

 is it. Now he can contain himself no longer, but 

 begins to walk about through the grass, making a 

 devious course, and uttering the call at intervals. 

 Very different is this note from the joyous, musical 

 'coo-oo-oo, hook-a-coo-ee, coo-ee.' Still, it is in 



