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Wheelwright in his ‘Sweden’ says the eggs are 
smaller and paler than of ‘ Rufus.’ 
Ray’s average of Melanurus is 54.3 by 37.0. Ray’s 
measure of eggs of ‘ Rufus’ (Schliiter’s eggs from Muonio- 
Lapland) is 50.5 by 38.0, and 50.0 by 36.0. 
An egg which I have, taken at Archangel, 23rd June, 
1880, is like a smad/ and handsome egg of ‘ Melanurus’; 
it measures 2.6 by 1.46 inches. 
Another one, from Herr Méschler, taken in North 
Russia, 18th July, 1883, is smaller stil/: and singularly 
pyriform; it measures I.94 by 1.44 inches: and .27 in 
diameter at section .11 inch from apex; as against .42 in 
the other egg at .11 inch from apex. 
THE RED-BREASTED SNIPE. 
( MACRORAMPHUS GRISEUS.) 
Mr. H. Saunders gives the dimensions of the egg 1.62 by 
1.12 inches. 
Mr. Seebohm 1.75 by 1.20. 
Eggs in my possession measure 1.74 by 1.27 inches. 
They were taken on Resolution Island, Hudson Bay, 8th 
July, 1884, by Mr. N.S. Sargeant, who shot the hen bird 
for identification. 
DHE KNOW. 
(TRINGA CANUTUS.) 
It is denied that authenticated eggs of the Knot exist. 
There is az egg (or was, August, 1884) in the Edin- 
burgh Museum, labeled ‘‘ T. Canutus authentic” ; it is 
in the same cabinet with some eggs that belonged to 
Wheelwright. 
