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additional details respecting his discovery of this nest * : — " Whilst walking 

 along some old gravel beaches, at a height of some 800 feet above the sea, I saw 

 a Sanderling running like a mouse amongst the stones. Throwing myself flat 

 on the ground, I watched the bird circling round and round, until at last it 

 returned to near the very spot where I had first observed it moving. The 

 nesting-place was a depression in the centre of a plant of Salioc arctica, and 

 was lined with a few dried leaves and catkins of the plant ; the eggs, two in 

 number, may be compared to miniature Curlew's, but the ground colour is not so 

 green. The sitting bird proved on dissection to be the male." 



* ' Zoologist,' 1879, p. 104. 



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