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China, Japan, the Kimls, and the Hawaiian Islands. In America, south of its 

 summer-haunts, it is found down to Patagonia and Chili." 



Mr, MacFarlane writes as follows with reference to his discovery of the eggs 

 of the Sanderling* : — " On 29th June, 1863, we discovered a nest of this species, 

 ' the only one at that time known to naturalists,' on the Barren Grounds, about 

 10 miles west of Franklin Bay. The nest was composed of withered hay and 

 leaves placed in a small cavity or depression in the ground, and it contained four 

 eggs, which were quite fresh. The female was snared. It is a very rare bird in 

 that quarter, and we never afterwards succeeded in finding another nest." 



The late Dr. Brewer gives the following description of two of the eggs 

 obtained by Mr. MacFarlane f : — " The two eggs in the Smithsonian Collection 

 (No. 9383) measure, one 1-44 inches in length by •95 in breadth ; the other, 1-43 

 by "99. Their ground-color is a brownish olive, marked with faint spots and 

 small blotches of bistre. These markings are very generally diffused, but are a 

 little more numerous about the larger end. They are of an oblong pyriform 

 shape." 



Colonel H. W. Feilden gives the following description of his discovery of 

 the eggs of this species J: — "I first observed this species in Grinnell Land on 

 the 5th June, 1876, flying in company with Knots and Turnstones ; at this date 

 it was feeding, like the other Waders, on the buds of Saxifraga opimsitifoUa. 

 This bird was by no means abundant along the coasts of Grinnell Land ; but 

 I observed several pairs in the aggregate, and found a nest of this species 

 containing two eggs in lat. 82° 33' N., on 24th June, 1876. This nest, from 

 which I killed the male bird, was placed on a gravel ridge, at an altitude of 

 several hundred feet above the sea, and the eggs were deposited in a slight 

 depression in the centre of a recumbent plant of arctic willow, the lining of 

 the nest consisting of a few withered leaves and some of the last year's catkins. 

 8th August, 1876, along the shores of Robeson Channel, I saw several parties of 

 young ones, three to four in number, following their parents, and led by the 

 old birds, searching most diligently for insects. At this date they were in a 

 very interesting stage of plumage, being just able to fly, but retaining some of 

 the down on their feathers." 



In his " Notes from an Arctic Journal," Colonel Feilden gives the following 



* ' Proceedings of the U.S. National Museum,' vol. xiv. 1891, p. 427. 

 t ' Water Birds of North America,' vol. i. p. 253. 



X "List of Birds observed in Smith Sound and in the Polar Basin during the Arctic Expedition 

 of 1875-76," ' Ibis,' 1877, p. 406. 



