TRYNGITES RUFESCENS. Tan 
TRYNGITES RUFESCENS (Vicillot). 
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER. 
[§ 3579. One.—Barren Grounds, east of Anderson River, 
29 June, 1863. From the Smithsonian Institution, 
through Prof. Baird, 1866. 
P. Z. 8. 1867, p. 165, pl. xv. fig. 4. 
The label accompanying this egg states that there were four eggs in the 
nest, from which the hen bird (no. 36100) was shot, and that they were part 
of Mr. R. MacFarlane’s spoil. He wrote (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 428) 
that this species, for which he. used the name of Tryngites subruficollis, “ is 
common in the Barren Grounds east of Horton River and on the Arctic coast. 
Between the 26th of June and the 9th of July upwards of twenty sets of eges 
were secured, and there were four in every nest, which was a mere depression 
in the soil, scantily lined with a few withered leaves and dried grasses. When 
the nest was approached the female parent usually made a low flight to 
a short distance.” 
This egg was exhibited by me at the meeting of the Zoological Society on 
the 24th of January, 1867, and is figured in the ‘ Proceedings’ (ut supra)— 
being the first time, so far as I know, that the egg of this species was described 
or represented. | 
{§ 3580. One.—Barren Grounds, east of Anderson River, 
29 June, 1863. From the Smithsonian Institution, 
‘through Prof. Baird, 1866. 
Another of Mr, MacFarlane’s specimens, from a nest of four, the parent 
bird of which was “ well identified.” | 
[§ 3581. Zwo.—Barren Grounds, Arctic America, 1865. From 
the United States National Museum, through Prof. 
Baird, 1886. 
These also obtained by Mr. MacFarlane, as testified by a document signed 
by Captain Bendire. | 
