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characteristic. He had seen these eggs in Green’s possession, and 
had thought them to be Turnstones’; aud at my rooms in the evening 
he again examined them and again thought them so. Placed among 
Snipes’ eggs they look very different. They were the first 
Mr. Hancock had seen, besides his own, which he had thought 
genuine. 
[A label on one of these eggs bears the private mark of Brandt of Hamburg, 
from whom, no doubt, Green obtained them. A seventh egg of this lot I gave 
to Mr. Newcome. | 
§ 3270. One.—From the sale of Mr. J. R. Wise’s Collection, 
1853. 
This was Lot 130 of the Catalogue, at Mr. Stevens’s rooms, 
11 February, 1853. The eggs were sold as belonging to J. R. Wise, 
Esq , of Lincoln College, Oxford. 
(Mr. Wise was supposed to have had many dealings with Dr. Kjzerbélling, of 
Copenhagen, from whom he most likely obtained this egg. | 
§ 3271. Zwo.—Sandskjer, Varanger Fjord, 23 June, 1850. 
IW. Se Wak Sy 
After a long watch, we were just embarking, when Mr. Simpson 
[Hudleston] said “One look more,’ and again went up the islet. 
There was a stony tract beyond the grass to which I had watched the 
hen, and whereabouts he had put her up. We looked under many of 
the large stones, and at last he jumped up and clapped his hands. 
There lay four eggs just visible under a large flat stone which formed 
a shelf two or three inches above the ground. When Mr. Newton 
came we removed the eggs and nest carefully, and found that the 
latter was made in an old Lemming’s—in fact, a Lemming’s nest 
was, as Mr. Simpson said, just ‘“ top-dressed”’ a little. We found 
Lemmings on the islet. One of the four eggs, kept by him, shews 
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more of the light ground-colour and is of singular beauty. 
[The contents of this nest were shared between Mr. Wolley, Mr. Hudleston, 
and myself, the first retaining two of the eggs, but on my becoming possessed 
of them I gave one of them to the second, so that he and I have each half’ of 
the spoil. We were on our way by boat from Vadsé to Mortensnes, when 
we landed on an islet, and the Turnstones immediately attracted our attention, 
just as that of Messrs. Hewitson and Hancock had been, as before stated 
(§ 8268). So far as ] remember, we had been watching the birds for nearly au 
hour. The islet was overrun by Lemmings. | 
