CHAP. XVIII. 



YOUNG GREY PLOVER. 



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the boat. When we had got about halfway towards the 

 spot where Harvie-Brown had been looking, I caught sight 

 of a young grey plover in down, almost at my feet. Stooping 

 down to pick it up, I saw the nest with three eggs not a 

 yard from me. This was the last and eleventh nest of these 

 rare birds which we found. The young in down are very 

 yellow, speckled with black, and are admirably adapted for 

 concealment upon the yellow-green moss on the edges of 

 the little bogs close to which the grey plover seems always 

 to choose a place for its nest. 



Our attempt to hatch the highly incubated eggs, and thus 

 obtain specimens of young in down, was successful. We 

 soon had five young grey plovers well and hearty, and 

 secured three or four more afterwards. 



MOSQUITO VEIL. 



