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eight feet, when the old Stint at once came and covered it, 

 but with many an anxious look both at the projecting label 

 and at us. The occurrence was the more extraoi'dinary 

 because this species is usually much wilder than the Little 

 Stint, even when it has young. At Habarova we again 

 found an old bird with four young; but the species is rare 

 in these countries, as only six or eight were seen during the 

 whole journey. 



30. Tringa striata. 



The Purple Sandpiper was observed at all the places 

 visited except Dolgoi Island; and no doubt with a more 

 extended search we should have met with it there also. 

 Young in down were obtained on Waigats, July 6th, 11th, 

 and 15th, and a nest of four eggs at Cape Greben on 

 July 11th. The latter was on a knoll of black peat partly 

 covered with white lichen, and was lined with dead leaves 

 of a dwarf willow. 



31. Machetes pugnax. 



We shot a Reeve the first day we landed on Waigats, and 

 afterwards saw a number of both Ruffs and Reeves ; but we 

 found only two nests : the first, on June 30th, containing only 

 one egg, and the second, on July 4th, three. A young bird in 

 down was obtained at Habarova, July 14th. Some Reeves 

 were also shot on Dolgoi Island, July 20th. The above is 

 the first record of this bird in Waigats. 



32. Sterna macrura. 



The only occasion on which we met with the Arctic Tern 

 on land last year was at Pachtussoff Island, on the east 

 coast of Lutke Land, where a small colony had young, just 

 able to fly, August 6th. They had nested on a bar of shingle 

 under the shelter of the island. 



33. Pagophila eburnea. 



The Ivory Gull also was met with only on the east coast 

 of Lutke Land. It was plentiful in Bear Bay, August 8th; 

 and more than forty quickly collected on an ice-floe where 

 our men had killed a seal. Two of those shot had large 

 incubation-spots, so it is probable they had bred this year in 

 the neighbourhood. Both birds were males. 



