252 ’ REV. H. N. BONAR ON 
1500 feet up, where there is no soil and no vegetation save 
lichens. I found two used nests of this species. The first was 
on the steep slope of the gorge behind Advent Point; it 
was on the only level bit of ground on the whole hillside, 
and was merely a slight hollow scraped in a small patch of 
grassy soil, It contained the fragments of the hatched-out 
egg-shells. The other nest I found on July 27 in a dry 
spot in the broad Sassendal Strath, nearly a mile away from 
the nearest hills, It was lined with leaves of the dwarf 
willow (Salix polaris) and contained one addled egg. This 
bird is absurdly tame, and needs the gravest compulsion to 
induce it to fly. It seems much to prefer running, at which 
it is an adept. 
*11, AEGIALITES HIATICULA (Linn.),—Ringed Plover. 
Only four specimens have been noted from Spitsbergen 
by different observers, I was fortunate enough to come 
across it in two different localities, On July 26 at Sassen 
Bay I heard its unmistakable call, and found two pairs 
feeding among the gravel and mud of the delta of a little 
stream near the sea, I spent some time in hunting for 
indications of the nesting of this bird; for there are miles 
of gravel flats and raised beaches in the neighbourhood. I 
found two or three circular depressions from which the 
larger stones had apparently been removed. They were very 
like the “ scrapes ” of this bird, but I cannot be positive, as it 
is not difficult to imagine other causes which might produce 
circular depressions in the gravel. Then on July 30 a 
flock of fourteen appeared on the flats at Advent Point. I 
saw them several times that day, but never near enough 
to identify them, especially as they were strangely and 
absolutely silent. But next morning I hunted for them 
carefully, and at last found them in two flocks of five and 
nine. I brought home two skins, one from this flock and 
one from Sassen Bay. 
12. STREPSILAS INTERPRES (Linn.).—Turnstone. 
Very rarely noted. I did not see it. 
