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out with the first nest of eggs ahnost entirely consisted of 

 moss to the depth of four inches. 



This last nest is lined with more leaves — dried dwarf 

 willow and Arctic Bramble* leaves — gathered probably 

 by the bird as she sat in the nest. 



Piottuch had marked the nearest point the bird had 

 approached to when he was at the nest by sticking a 

 small piece of stick upright in the ground. It was about 

 a gun's length, or a little more, from the nest. The bird 

 when there preened her feathers. 



The eggs show another variety still resembling a variety 

 of the Dunlin's, and are intermediate in richness of 

 coloration between the other two sets of eggs. 



We shot three Little Stints, a Dunlin, and Temminck's 

 Stints, which were feeding along the margins of the river. 



Simeon brought in two eggs of the Black-throated 

 Diver and the two birds 



Jul]) 25. 



On Sunday, the 25th of July, Seebohm and I took a 

 stroll in the opposite direction from the Stint ground, and 

 came upon a large marsh with a few pools of water. 



Here Seebohm shot what we then thought was a Grey 

 Phalarope, and we afterwards secured three more and 

 three young Phalaropes, but were unable satisfactorily to 

 identify the latter, as both species were frequenting the 

 edges of the loch and marsh. But afterwards we found, 

 as stated further on, that they were all Red-necked 

 Phalaropes of various ages.t 



The marsh underneath was hard frozen at a depth of 

 from \\ to 2 feet, and as I had got my long boots wet 



'■'■'■ I.e., B. arcticus which is the dominant Biihus here. 



t When our skins were examined at Sheffield by Messrs H. E. 

 Dresser, Howard Saunders, and H. Seebohm, in September, 1875, 

 these examples were pronounced to be immature Red-necked 

 Phalaropes in tvinter plumage. 



