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Davenport, who found a nest of this species containing four eggs on a moorland 

 lying midway between Llanuwchyllyn and Trawsfynydd, Merionethshire, on 

 May 29th, 1895.* 



Mr. H. Seebohm states that the eggs of the Dunlin " vary in length from 

 1-4 to 1-2 inch, and in breadth from I'O to -9 inch."f 



Mr. H. E. Dresser says that the eggs of this species measure from 1"2 by 

 •95 inch to 1-4 by "95 inch, and 1-37 by 1-0 inch. He further states that he was 

 informed by the late Mr. Benzon, that the latter, who had often taken the eggs 

 in Denmark, possessed a large series measuring from 1-49 by 1-02 inch to 1-26- 

 by -86 inch.$ 



* ' Zoologist,' 1895, p. 275. 



t ' History of British Birds,' vol. iii. p. 1S6. 



J ' History of the Birds of Europe,' vol. viii. p. 27. 



