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ing that the eggs must have been removed by the 

 parent birds to the face of a muddy bank at least 

 forty yards distant from the original nest. A few 

 decayed leaves had been placed under them, but 



Fig. 41. 



nothing else in the way of lining. A third egg had 

 been added in the interim. There can hardly be any 

 doubt of the truth of the foregoing facts." ^ 



' Bendire, Life Histories of North American Birds, 1892, p. 301. 



