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feathers on either side of the shafts being as a rule black. Gorge 

 entirely white. Cheeks of alight reddish brown with hardly a spot; 

 on the forehead the spots are exceeding small, yet distinct, fainter 

 on the sides of the throat. A band of reddish brown extends 

 from the gape to the eye. Dorsal plumes black, deeply margined 

 with rusty yellow. Pectoral region a light brown blended with 

 grey, and sprinkled with a profusion of brown and reddish brown 

 spots. Vent and lower part of abdomen white. Inner half of quill- 

 shafts dusky brown, outer do. white. The 2 black middlemost tail- 

 feathers are banded at the edges with reddish brown. 



The male is somewhat smaller than the female, the individual 

 examined measuring:^ — Total length (about) 140 mm; wing 92, tail 

 37, tarsus 20, culmen 15 mm. The greyish brown of the breast was 

 more circumscribed, and the eyebrows less distinct. The female 

 measured as follows: — Total length 154 mm; wing 97, tail uy/^, 

 tarsus 23, culmen 18 mm, A white superciliary stripe extends along 

 the side of the head. 



This bird no doubt also breeds in East Finmark, Nordvi hav- 

 ing repeatedly observed it in Varanger and along the banks of 

 the Tana in the summer months. * 



From the stomachs I took the remains of insects, exceed- 

 ingly minute; in those of individuals shot near Christiania on 

 their autumn passage, towards the latter end of August 1870, the 

 seeds of an aquatic plant were also found. 



Tringa cincltis, Lin. (alpina Lin.). 



The most widely distributed of the genus along the coastal 

 line and on the southern fells, — breeding abundantly in some 

 localities, the Jsederen marshes, for instance. Common in Finmark, 

 up to the Russian frontier. Sometimes found wintering in large 

 numbers on the southern coast. 



The nests are located on marshy ground, generally at the top 

 of a heathery knoll, and are composed exclusively of straws. 



' In „Norges Fugle" (Forh. i Vid.-Selsk. 1868, this species is erroneously 

 recorded as having beeo found by Esmark near Vads0. The bird observed 

 turned out to be Tr.* Temminckii. 



