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three eggs on an alder in an old dove's nest, as lie 

 thinkSj though he states it might hare been that of 

 a jar. PreTionslr he had only observed this sandpiper 

 to nse old nests of Turdiis mxisiciis, excepting once when 

 he found some voung ones, onlr a few days old, hard by 

 a rirer bank on a layer of pine needles on an alder stub. 

 With a brief allusion to the remarks upon this subject, 

 by Herr Badeker and Dr. Baldamus, amongst foreign 

 ornithologists, and the review of the same in the 

 ''Ibis" already mentioned, Mr. Xewton concludes with 

 a reference to the published notes of the late Mr. W. 

 H. "Wheelwright, who, under the signature of "an 

 Old Bushman," made known, in his communications to 

 the ''Field" newspaper, his own experience of the 

 green, sandpiper's way of nesting in Sweden ; and the 

 following portion of a letter received by him from 

 his friend Pastor Theobold, of Copenhagen (dated 

 November 27th, 1861). "The nidiacation of Totanus 

 ochropus is so remarkable that I do not fear to trouble 

 jou with the history the Forester Hintz [mentioned 

 above] has given me. He writes, — 'This year I 

 succeeded in finding the nest of Totanus ocJiropus. 

 On the 9th of May I took four eggs of this bird; 

 they were found in an old nest of Turdus musicus, 

 and seemed to have been incubated about three days. 

 The very same day there were brought me four other 

 esrsrs of this bird, also found in a thrush's nest. * * * 

 The lC>th of May there was shown to me a nest, thirty- 

 feet high, on an old birch, the bird having chosen an 

 old decayed nest of a squirrel. This nest was the 

 highest I have ever seen. Three young ones had just 

 been hatched ; in the fourth egg the bird was about to 

 break the shelL One jumped down and concealed itself 

 on the edge of a water-pooL The 11th of May a nest 

 with four fresh eggs was found, but they did not come 

 into my hands ; this was in an old pigeon's nest on a 



