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WILD NORWAY. 
fact was demonstrated on the 13th by A, finding a 
downy fledgeling creeping among the bog-grass. It was 
buff-coloured, warmer on the neck, spotted with black, 
and had a short bill, but very large legs and feet. The 
faint cries of other youngsters hard by answered to the 
parental clamour. The same evening (May 13th), 
having observed a pair of G-odwits persistently playing 
in-air, “kissing ” each other, we landed on a specially 
GODWITS AT THEIR NESTING-GROUNDS. 
soft and squashy bog, whereon, within fifty yards, 
“Rolf” poked his nose into a Spotted Crake, which rose 
from her nest of ten fresh eggs in one of the wettest 
spots. The nest itself, however, was dry, supported 
between some dead flag-stalks. Five minutes afterwards, 
by sheer luck, we stumbled right into the G-odwits’ nest 
with four fresh eggs, exactly beneath the spot where 
the old birds had been “ toying,” though they had now 
disappeared entirely. Few birds are wilder than these 
