Eggs Scarce.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXX, Issue 32, 7 August 1902, Page 29

Eggs Scarce.

The eggs of some common birds of the present day have never been found. There is the robin snipe, ita eggs have never been scon An Engx lis-h zoologist kept a man going up and down the coasi of Labrador for we.-ks purposely to <^ot a robin snipe's egg But it was m \am Tin* bird is known hv thousands of people, but it breeds so far north and so jomote fi om any civilisation, that no scientific observer can e\eii g-eL to its nest ere the joung are hatched and ha\o taken to win« Tho frigate, bird, that is so eonunonlv seen at sea on the Pacific and off tho West indies, is such a solitary bird, and is so seldom in its nesfl during the hours of daylight, that its egg is rare it seems strange but. the oggs of so well known a bird as- the sandpiper ha\e never been found, and are almost priceless.