the Birds of the Lower Petchora. 309 



grass^ it is possible that we might have added their eggs to 

 our list ; but the accounts we received, like many other items 

 of information, were most conflicting, one person affirming 

 from personal observation, that the said islands are grass- 

 covered, and another being equally positive that they are not. 

 We cannot but believe, however, that their breeding -haunts 

 were not far distant, whether upon the islands of the Golaiev- 

 skai group, unvisited by us, or upon the coast east or west of 

 Dvoinik, or upon the coast of the Timanskai tundra, or upon 

 all of these. 



In regard to the migration of the Sanderling in the south 

 of Russia, the authors of the Russian work already referred 

 to tell us that it has been seen in spring on the Sarpa, and 

 in the autumn at Kasan. 



This species must have an extensive circumpolar distri- 

 bution during the breeding-season, although comparatively 

 little as yet has been recorded of its breeding-habits. Prof. 

 Newton (P. Z. S, 1871, p. 56) notices a Sanderling's egg ob- 

 tained by McFarlane near the Anderson river, in N.W. 

 America, which was sent to him by the Smithsonian Insti- 

 tution, a figiu'c of which will be found {torn. cit. pi. iv. fig. 2) . 

 Shortly afterwards, as we are further informed by Prof. 

 Newton, the eggs collected by the German North-Pole Ex- 

 pedition were sent to him ; and among them were some which 

 he could hardly doubt to be those of C. arenaria. These he 

 exhibited to the Zoological Society (20th June, 1871), and 

 stated that an examination of the series showed that an egg 

 which Wolley and he bought in Iceland in 1858, was almost 

 unquestionably a Sanderling^s also^ (P. Z. S. 1871, pp. 546, 

 547). The eggs obtained by the German Expedition were 

 found on Sabine's Island, east coast of Greenland, in 1869, 

 and have been described by Prof. Newton (Zweite deutsche 

 Nordpolarfahrt, ii. pp. 240-242). 



SCOLOPAX GALLINAGO, L. 



We found the Common Snipe rather abundant at Habariki 



* Canon Tristram also exhibited three eggs, supposed to be of this bird 

 (P. Z. S. 18G4, p. 337), along with two birds. 



