144 EGGS OF BEITISH BIRDS. 



being confluent. A few streaks of very dark blackish-brown are 

 sometimes seen over the ordinary blotches, and the latter 

 occasionally take an oblique direction. They are pyriform in 

 shape, and vary in length from 175 to 155 inch, and in breadth 

 from 1-2 to 1-08 inch. 



THE KNOT. 

 (Tringa canutus.) 



Plate 43, Fig. 10. 



Scarcely anything is known of the breeding-places of the Knot, 

 as young birds only were found by Colonel Fielden and Mr. H. C. 

 Hart in the Arctic regions during the voyage of the "Alert" and 

 " Discovery." 



A nest found by Mr. Hart during the latter voyage was placed 

 on the ground under a large flat stone, which was resting on two 

 others, and was composed of a few leaves and bits of dry grass 

 loosely put together. 



The egg which I have ventured to figure is one of a clutch 

 of four sent, with the parent bird shot on the nest, to me by 

 Mr. Verslev, the chief tenor of the opera in Copenhagen, who 

 received it from Coloniforsteher Bolbre, who procured it in 1875 

 on Disco, in Greenland, near Godhaven, in lat. 69°. 



THE CUKLEW SANDPIPEB. 

 {Tringa subarquata.) * 

 The Curlew Sandpiper is not an uncommon bird on migration 

 in the British Islands. It must breed somewhere in the high 

 regions of the north, but like those of the Knot, genuine eggs of 

 the Curlew Sandpiper are still a prize which some adventurous 

 ornithologist has yet to secure. 



THE DUNLIN. 



(Tringa alpina.)\ 



Plate 43, Figs. 7, 9. 



The Dunlin is a regular summer visitor to the west of Scotland 

 and the adjacent islands, including the Outer Hebrides, the 

 Orkneys and the Shetlands. In England it is a very rare and 



* Ancylochilus subarquatus — Sharpe, Handb., III., p. 236. 

 f Pelidna alpina— Sharpe, Handb., III., p. 228. 



