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chakadriim:. 
is now made, bears a very close resemblance to eggs of 
tlie common sandpiper. I mention this, to show another 
example of that beautiful chain of resemblances which 
seem to exist through Nature's wide domain. The Little 
Kinged Plover is very closely allied in its form, and 
colouring, and general appearance, to the two preceding 
species; and so, for the most part, is its egg. In its 
habits, however, and the selection of its place of breeding, 
it differs from its allies, and resembles then more closely 
the common sandpiper, and so do some of the varieties of 
its eggs bear close resemblance to those of that species. 
