112 BIRD STUDIES WITH A CAMERA 
sacrificed that article of apparel to such an exhibi- 
tion of bravery. 
As I advanced I began to discover nests. Some 
were on the upland, snugly placed in the grass or 
near a large stone,” and with pretty surroundings of 
yarrow, sumach, or bending grasses ; others were on 
the little shelves of the steep westerly bank of the 
islet ; and others still on bits of seaweed among the 
pebbles and rocks which here formed the beach.® 
No attempt was made 
to take advantage of 
the concealment of- 
fered by the groups 
of bowlders scattered 
along the beach, and 
beneath which the 
birds might have hid- 
den effectively, it be- 
ing presumably their 
object to select a 
site from which they 
could readily detect 
any cause for alarm. 
As a rule, their nests 
contained one or two 
eggs, only a single nest being seen with three. 
Although by this time birds of the year should 
have been on the wing, few young of any age were 
seen—a condition which was doubtless explained by 
the fact that the birds, thus far, had been too much 
occupied furnishing the members of boating parties 
with souvenirs of their day’s outing, to give atten- 
tion to their own household affairs, 
Wig. 
iy Peasy 2 3 
54. Nest and eggs of Tern on upland. 
