BROAD-BILLED SANDPIPEI?. 365 



The late Mr. Eichard Dann, during his visits to Norway 

 and Lapland, ascertained the breeding-grounds of this species, 

 and succeeded in obtaining the old birds in their breeding 

 plumage, their eggs, and a young bird when just able to Hy. 

 Mr. Dann most liberally presented the Author with the 

 eggs, the young bird, and an old one, to which he added a 

 long series of notes on the localities frequented during the 

 breeding-season, by a large proportion of those birds which 

 only visit this country for the winter. Mr. Danu's name, 

 as well as information obtained from him, has already ap- 

 peared, on many occasions, in this history, and his notes in 

 reference to the Broad- billed Sandpiper are to the following 

 effect : — 



" This Sandpiper is by no means uncommon during the 

 breeding-season in Lulea and Tornea Lapmark, frequenting 

 grassy morasses and swamps in small colonies, generally in 

 the same places as those frequented by the Totanus glareola, 

 our Wood Sandpiper. It breeds also at Fokstuen on the 

 Dovre Fjeld mountains, about three thousand feet above the 

 level of the sea, in Norway, where it arrives at the latter 

 end of May. On its first appearance it is wild and shy, 

 and similar in its habits to the other species of the genus, 

 feeding on the grassy borders of the small pools and lakes 

 in the morasses. On being disturbed it soars to a great 

 height in the air, rising and falling suddenly like the Snipe, 

 uttering the notes two won, which are rapidly repeated. As 

 the weather becomes warm its habits totally change, skulking 

 and creeping through the dead grass, and allowing itself to 

 be followed within a few yards, and when flushed dropping 

 again a short distance off. It seems to lay its eggs later 

 than others of this tribe generally. I found the eggs not 

 sat upon on the 24th of June, and the last week in July the 

 young were unable to fly ; a period when all the other Sand- 

 pipers are on the move south. The eggs were of a deep 

 chocolate colour, and its nest, like that of the Snipe, was on 

 a hummocky tuft of grass. Although I found the young 

 only half fledged the last week in July, and hunted the 

 morasses very carefully, I never flushed or saw a single old 



