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THE BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 
(TRYNGITES RUFESCENS.) 
Davie gives the description of its nidification “clay colour 
of various shades; sharply spotted with rich Umber brown, 
pointedly pyriform, four 1.45 by 1.05, variable; nests 
on the ground in a slight depression. 
My own experience has been that on very many eggs 
the blotches are better matched by MWadder brown, than 
any of those tints by which those markings are always 
described. 
The egg in the Edinburgh Museum, presented by 
the Smithsonian Institute, is like a large Dunlin’s egg. 
WILSON’S SNIPE. 
(GALLINAGO MeEpDIA WILSONI.) 
Rejected trom the B.O.U List. 
Noticed by H, Saunders. 
Admitted by Seebohm, 
who considers it subspecific to the Common Snipe. 
One bird of this species was shot at Taplow Court, 
Bucks, on Ist August, 1863, it was forwarded at once to Mr. 
Gould for identification in the flesh, and examined by Mr. 
Flarting. 
This could not have been an ‘escaped’ bird. 
Two eggs which I have were taken by Mr. J. F. Hill, 
at Hebron, New York, on May 16, 1882, ¢he bzrd was seen 
at the nest; which was composed of dry grasses, in a tussock 
on the marsh; it contained only two eggs; they are unlike 
any Snipe’s eggs I have seen; clear clay-coloured ground; 
markings slight; very pyramidal; size of Snipe’s. 
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