Show SHORE BIRDS ARE MYSTERY less ts to known about their breeding haunts and habits than thanos of any other feathered tribe tri swift and tireless of night flight late lafe la im may the hordes of migrant 1 shore birds are gone as suddenly as they appeared no one sees tit alie agn iu go probably the start is ia in the evening but by b Y the time we miss them they may be I 1 a thousand miles farther to the north that Is when they have really decad j ed to be on the move previously they ma may y have fed leisurely alo along ng fro from I 1 beach to beach and marsh t to 0 marsh infer recuperating from their long all g h s across southern seas but now the v verc ver e rt r T c nal influence sounds the clarion call pad and they forthwith strike the real llma leml colane pace where do they go less Is knower about the breeding haunts find and habit 9 of this mysterious tribe than of any an lother bother in the system of ornithology i while a very few of the species es linger on our southern coasts the tha gr eat mas ot of them t to 0 push on for th the e far nor north h nor do the bulk efthem of them stop till ehg jure are where the curiosity of man ca can seldom disturb their privacy the eggs and and nesting habits of a number ofa these species are hardly known to acl I 1 i ence their summer home la Is the ba bar r 4 ren 0 n ground around the arctic sea in arthe the damp moss near some pool upon luponi the cold ground baill frozen under oath in the early part of june they scratch a slight sligh t hollow build a rude r crall r all nest of grass and lay four eggs pyrl crifo form rm dr or pear shaped drab colored coloreds colo redi ind ad heavily blotched with black op oe rown all outdoors |