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Society for 1863,* but I would strongly recommend 
its perusal to all who are interested in the history 
of this particular species. From the “ Naumannia” 
for 1851 and 1852, he cites one or two instances of 
the discovery of the nesting of this sandpiper upon 
trees, on the authority of Herr Passler and Baron 
von Homeyer, the latter stating that during his stay 
at Haff he had seen many nesting places, which 
were on the borders of the alder-wastes “in the 
middle of the forest where the trees stand upon hil- 
locks.” Again from the “Journal fir Ornithologie” 
for 1855, we have the evidence of Herr Wiese, who, 
writing on the ornithology of Pomerania, especially 
in the district of Coslin, admits his former disbelief 
in the statement of an old sportsman, that Totanus 
ochropus laid in old thrushes’ nests, nor was he at 
all convinced until some years after, in 1845, when 
“he obtained from the same man four fine eggs of a 
bird of this species, which for some years had been 
wont to nestle in an old beech tree.” His scepticism 
however, vanished altogether in the following spring, 
when he himself found a nest of the bird on a pine 
which had a fork about five and twenty or thirty feet 
high, wherein he discovered “four eggs on a simple 
bed of moss.” In the spring of 1853 he also took four 
eggs, and in 1854 “ found a nest placed in the old nest 
of a song-thrush, out of which the shed buds of the 
beech had not so much as been removed.” Again in 
the * Naumannia” for 1856 and 1857, Dr. Altum 
describes the annual nesting-places of this species as 
misseltoe-thrushes’ nests, “often some hundred yards 
distant from the nearest pool, and their height fifteen 
feet or more from the ground;” and in the same dis- 
trict, on the 6th of May, 1855, Herr W. Hintz found 
* Vide also the “ Zoologist” for 1864, p. 9115. 
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