88 H@MATOPUS OSTRILEGUS. 
HAMATOPUS OSTRILEGUS, Linneus. 
OYSTER-CATCHER. 
§ 3280. Four.—Shores of the Wash? 1843. 
These I bought of Harvey [of Baitsbight]. He had several from 
Lynn. One, marked by me “A,” and others like it, he declared 
were Avosets’, and very valuable. He had been misinformed. 
Others he said were Gulls’ eggs, and of little value. I bought two 
of this variety, one of which I sent to Mr. Hewitson, who says he 
has little doubt they are remarkable varieties of the Oyster-catcher. 
[Harvey no doubt had these from the bargemen who plied between Lynn 
and Cambridge, and the eggs were most likely taken on the shores of the Wash, 
particularly on the Norfolk side, on the coast of which county Messrs. Gurney 
and Fisher, writing in 1846 (‘Zoologist,’ p. 1319), said that the bird was 
common, and still breeding, as indeed a few may yet breed. | 
§ 3281. S¢v.—From M. Nager-Donazain, 1846. 
Sent instead of as many eggs of Himantopus which I had ordered 
from his list ! 
§ 3282. Sta.—Handa, Sutheriand, 9 June, 1848. 
Mr. James Edge found two nests of Oyster-catcher on the island, 
the eggs in both hard sat on. I took them all myself. 
§ 3283. Oxe—Great Calva, Sutherland, June, 1848. 
§ 3284. Highty.—Feroes, 1851. From Sysselmand Winther. 
[In his Observations on the birds of these islands (Contr. Orn. 1850, p. 107) 
Mr. Wolley wrote that “great numbers of Oyster Catchers and Elder Ducks 
mark the abundance of the productions of the wave-washed roeks”; and, 
indeed, the piping of this species may be heard almost incessantly both day 
and night during the summer, on almest all their shores. ] 
§ 3285. “even —Feroes, 1852. From Sysselmand Miller. 
