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2. Faroe Islands, 15th June {H. C. M. : . Seebohm Coll. 



Haryitt Coll.). 

 4. Faroe Islands, 15tli June {H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.). 

 4. Faroe Islands, IGth June {H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt, Coll.). 



3. Faroe Islands, 19th June {H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.). 



4. Faroe Islands, 20th June (H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Hnrqitt Coll.). 



3. Faroe Islands, 24th June {H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.). 



4. Fariie Islands, 16th June {H. C. M.). Seebohm Coll. 

 4. Faroe Islands (H. C. M.). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Advent Bay, Spitsbergen, 19th June. A. Trevor Battye, Esq. [P.]. 



Arquatella couesi, RicUjw. 

 (Plate II. fig. 10.) 



Arquatella couesi, Baird, Breicer &; Jiidt/w. Water Birds N. Am. i. 



p. 221 (1884) ; S/iarpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 583 (1896) ; 



id. Hand-l. i. p. 164 (1899). 

 Tringa couesi. Nelson, Report Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 103 (1887). 

 Tringa maritima couesi, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce , p. 430 



(1887). 



The eggs of the Aleutian Sandpiper in the Collection are pyri- 

 form and possess but little gloss. They are very uniform, being 

 of a pale olive-bufF, denselj^ marked, especially on the broader halt', 

 with spots, streaks, and blotches of umber-brown, and some indis- 

 tinct pale underlying grey. The markings at the broad end are 

 confluent, and form a dense cap. These eggs cannot be exactly 

 matched by any of those of A. maritima in the Collection, but they 

 are of the same general character. They measure from 1*4 to 1-51 

 in length, and from '95 to 1 in breadth. 



1. North America. Old Collection. 



4. St. Michael's, Alaska, 29th May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{E. W. Nelson). 



Genus TRINGA, Linn. 

 Tringa canutus {Linn.). 



Tringa canutus, Thiin. Fortpjianz. ges. Vog. tab. Ixi. fig. 3, a-d 0845-54) ; 

 Baedeker, Eier Eur. T'iig. tab. 71. hg. G (1855-03) ; Dresser, Birds 

 Eur. viii. p. 77 (1877) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 174 (1885) ; id. 

 Geoqr. Bistr. Charadriidce, y. 422 (18c''7); id. Eqgs of Brit. Birds, 

 p. 144, pi. 43. lig. 10 (1896) : Raiite, Bird-Nesting N. W. Canada, 

 p. 188, pi. iii. figs. 1, 2; Poyntim/, Eqgs of Brit. Birds, p. 171 

 (1895-6); Shurpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv.' p. 593 (1890); id. 

 Hand-l. i. p. 164 (1899). 



The history of the single egg of the Knot contained in the Collec- 

 tion has already been fully given by the late Mr. Seebohm in the 



