XXVIII. 
THE RINGED PLOVER. 
The Ringed Plover, represented in this plate, lays four eggs in a very slight 
depression of the shingle, without any nest, a little above high water mark. The 
eggs are not easily found, and the young birds run as soon as hatched, — but the 
eggs here drawn were watched till the first egg was hatched, so as to have both 
the eggs and the young in the picture. The birds are common in Loch Ailort 
(and elsewhere), and collect in Autumn in small flights of twenty or so. 
