NORFOLK PLOVER. 
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Since the preceding page was printed I have been in¬ 
duced to give a third figure to represent a very unusual 
variety, and regret that the scope of the work will not 
allow me to give further illustrations. 
Mr. Newton, who lives in the head-quarters of these 
birds, has most kindly sent me a beautiful series of 
several dozen of their eggs ; some mapped over the en¬ 
tire surface, as if covered with a piece of the finest sea¬ 
weed ; others, which might pass for eggs of a falcon both 
in shape and colour, one especially, which has all the 
spots at the smaller end, a variety common to eggs of the 
sparrow-hawk; many of them, like Mr. Salmon's egg 
mentioned above, much resembling eggs of the Sand¬ 
wich tern. 
Mr. Newton says, that “the Norfolk Plover is remark¬ 
able for its attachment to its breeding-ground, even after 
the hand of man has effected great changes in its cha¬ 
racter ; so much so, that a particular spot, where a pair 
of birds of this species had been accustomed to breed, 
was resorted to by them for that purpose long after it, 
and many acres round it, were planted with trees, and 
had become the centre of a flourishing wood." 
END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 
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