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obtained, though I have never seen any that in richness of colouring approach 
some eggs of the Golden Plover. The present egg measures 1:87 in. by 
1-44 in., or 48 mm. by 37 mm. nearly. Middendorff’s figure (tom. cit. 
tab. xix. fig. 1) is 2:19 in. by 1-4 in., or 56 mm. by 36 mm.] 
[§ 3365. One —Alexievka Tundra, 22 June, 1875. “Bird 
shot. J. A. H.-B.” From Mr. Harvie-Brown. 
This is one of a nest of four taken by Mr. Harvie-Brown himself on the 
Alexievka Tundra (that is, the Great Zemelskai Tundra opposite to Alexievka), 
and he was kind enough to copy for me this extract from his journal: 
“22 June... As we were slowly plodding along another Grey Plover started 
up close to one of the above-mentioned tarns (vide ‘ This,’ 1876, p. 223), and, 
marking the spot, I, after a short search, found the nest again with four eges. 
The others went on, and after waiting half an hour or so, I shot the male bird 
within ten yards of the nest. I packed the eggs in the leather case of my 
binocular, and after a weary drag of two versts over the hummocls and 
through the peaty bogs I joined the rest of our party at the boat and we 
returned tired but rejoicing.” | 
[§ 3366. Zwo.—Alexievka, 3 July, 1875. “Bird seen. J. A. 
H-B.” From Mr. Harvie-Brown. 
Again from a nest of four on the same moor. Mr. Harvie-Brown’s note is: 
“Bird watched to the nest, but not shot. Mr, Seebohm fired at, and we believe 
wounded, the female, as only the male returned afterwards.”’ | 
[§ 3367. Zwo.—Alexievka, 9 July, 1875. ‘Bird seen. J. A. 
H.-B.” From Mr. Harvie-Brown. 
These also from a nest of four, in the same neighbourhood. Mr. Harvie- 
Brown’s note is: “Shortly afterwards we saw a bird [Grey Plover] fly off 
just where Simeon some time before had been searching for a nest. We at 
once lay down and in ten or fifteen minutes the bird went on to her nest— 
again containing four eggs, These eggs are much darker—olive-brown,—and 
the nest was the only one we found placed in the midst of peat ground. It 
was near the top of a hummock, one of a ridge composed of dark peaty loam.”’} 
[§.3368. Zwo.—Great Zemelskai Tundra, 12 July, 13875. 
* Both birds shot.” From Mr. Harvie-brown. 
Again from a nest of four. Mr. Harvie-Brown wrote: “Simeon (the 
Samoyede) came forward with three more Grey Plovers’ eggs and the two 
birds which he had shot at the nest. He had taken the fourth egg, and told 
us there was a very large live bird in it. One of these eggs has the smallest 
measurements of any of my sixteen specimens.’’| 
