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Identifier: storiesaboutbird00kirb (find matches)
Title: Stories about birds of land and water
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Kirby, Mary, 1817-1893 Kirby, Elizabeth, 1823-1873
Subjects: Birds -- Juvenile literature
Publisher: Hartford (Conn.) : American Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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THE GOLDEN Il.OVER. direction. As they fly they utter soft and pleasing notes, mingled with whichcomes a curious cry, like the word counter-wee. When they have reached their wild haunts, the male birds appear cladin their showy summer costume, and are very tame. Often, as the tourist THE PLOVER. looks about him, the bird comes and alights close by on some mossy bank.This is not the season for the sportsman, so he escapes with impunity. The nest is a very slovenly fabric, and consists of a few fragments ofheather plants, placed in a slight hollow, or laid on a dry spot on the ground.There are four eggs of a hght yellow, or cream colour, dotted and patchedwith brown, and sometimes with a few light purple spots. The little plovers come from the shell quite able to run, and to take careof themselves, and to leave the nest at once. The mother bird goes about with them, however, and is very anxious fortheir safety, and if any danger threatens, is in the greatest distress. She doesall she ca

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