observed in the Kola Peninsula. 489 



TOTANUS FUSCUS, 



A pair of Dusky Redshanks on a small marsh near Raz- 

 Navolok, on July 1 8th, were the first met with. AVe afterwards 

 found a good many on several marshes near the Pulozero. 

 These birds were invariably wild, and all those we shot were 

 males. 



Doubtless we were too late for eggs, and after prolonged 

 searching we had to relinquish the idea of finding either 

 eggs or young. A pair which I watched amid a swarm of 

 mosquitoes for an hour or more were exceedingly wary. 

 Perching on the tops of the pine-trees, they kept up an 

 incessant rattle of alarm whenever I was in view. This 

 alarm-cry was composed of a single note very rapidly and 

 loudly repeated a number of times, and was uttered both on 

 the wing and when perched. When I was in hiding the 

 birds became silent, but the slightest movement on my part 

 was signalled by the alarm " rattle. ^^ The call-note of the 

 bird is a plaintive pipe, somewhat like that of the Golden 

 Plover, but sharper. 



[Pleske obtained young birds near Kola on August 12th, 

 and saw three birds at Zasheech on July 16th, 1880.] 



ToTANUS CANfiSCENS. 



Like the Wood-Sandpiper, the Greenshank was to be 

 found, a pair here and there, on nearly every piece of marsh 

 from Kandalax to Kola. The birds were invariably wild 

 and exceedingly difficult to approach. Chicks of about a 

 week old were found on July 22nd near the Pulozero. 



LiMOSA LAPPONICA. 



A pair or two of Bar-tailed Godwits were found on most 

 of the. larger marshes near the Imandra and the Pulozero, 

 and we also saw a small flock of mature birds in Kola Bay 

 on July 29th. On July 16th and again on July 22nd we found 

 broods of four each, of about a week old. In each case the 

 young ones seemed to be attended only by the male bird, 

 which was very bold and often swooped straight over our 

 heads and then retired to the top of a pine, calling loudly all 

 the while. In one case the male bird tried to entice us away 



