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13, PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS (Linn.).—Grey Phalarope. 
Distributed thinly: recorded from many spots. I was 
very much disappointed never to see this bird, for which I 
made diligent search at every likely spot. 
14, TRINGA ALPINA, Linn.—Dunlin. 
A single female shot off Edge Island, August 22, 1889, by 
the Bremen Geographical Society’s Expedition, is the record 
for this species. See Ibis, January 1899, p. 46. 
*15. Trina stRIaTA, Linn—Purple Sandpiper. 
Very abundant. To be seen almost everywhere, except 
actually on snow or ice. Pretty tame, yet shrinking in its 
habits. Whenever there was soil enough to form a marsh, or 
gravel enough to form a little bank at the edge of the sea, 
this bird was to be seen. Equally plentiful in the flat 
straths of Sassen and Advent dals, or on the high stony 
plateaus. At all places it was to be seen, often running 
and skulking so furtively that it looked like a grey rat. I 
saw one on a huge mossy boggy moor some 2000 feet up 
among the Colorado Hills. Egg-shells belonging to this bird 
were found in two places in Sassendal, and we found an 
empty nest on the spot where we camped at Sassen Bay shore. 
It was perfectly circular, and remarkably deep, its edges 
being nearly perpendicular. It was lined with leaves of the 
dwarf willow (Salix polaris) which abounds there. I found 
two young belonging to this nest, perfectly able to run, and 
with some difficulty caught and photographed them. Found 
another young one on Advent Point much further grown. 
It did not try to fly, but it ran like a hare. 
16. TRINGA CANUTUS, Linn.— Knot. 
One male shot off Edge Island, August 22, 1889, by the 
Bremen Geographical Society’s Expedition. The only record 
of this bird, See Ibis, January 1899, p. 46. 
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