132 TOTANUS GLOTTIS., 
TOTANUS GLOTTIS (Linneus) '. 
GREENSHANK. 
§ 3582. Two.—Assynt, Sutherland, 1848. “J. 8.’ From 
Mr. John Sutherland, 1849. 
On Friday, 18th May, 1849, John Sutherland gave me two Green- 
shank’s eggs. He gave three to Mr. St. John last year (these 
Mr. Hancock has) and three to the Messrs. Milner. These two he also 
had last year. He has at a shepherd’s four eggs of this year, which he 
walked up himself. He promised me two of them. It was Mr. Henry 
Milner who first mentioned Sutherland’s name to me. I saw one 
Greenshank’s egg in Mr. Bantock’s possession at Dunrovin. He 
had given the fellow egg to Mr. Hancock in the spring, and this 
with the three given to him by Mr. St. John, mentioned above, made 
up the four which I saw in Mr. Hancock’s collection later in the 
year. Sutherland said that the eight eggs he had got all belonged 
to the same pair of birds—the second set he got very late in the 
year, a good deal sat upon. At this time I believe the collections of 
eggs just mentioned were the only ones in Britain that contained the 
eggs of this bird. Isaw many Greenshanks, but they were wild and 
I could not find their nests. 
[The two eges above mentioned as being promised to Mr. Wolley were 
brought to him a few days later, at Inchnadamph. They were sold at 
Mr. Stevens’s on the 3lst May, 1860, to Messrs. Bond and Marshall. | 
§ 3583. One.—Kinloch, Sutherland, 1852. 
Donald M‘Kay wrote to me from Tongue, 3 May, 1852 :—“I have 
got four Greenshank’s eggs. I found them on the right of the way 
we passed [by] Kinloch from Tongue to Ben Hope. I went to the 
side of the loch and hid inyself until I was sure the bird was on the 
1 (Mr. Wolley unfortunately never wrote any account of the ways of this bird, 
which he had abundant opportunity of observing in Lapland, though it would seem 
that he took only one nest of it, believing that Mr. Hewitson would be supplied with 
full notes by Siz William Milner, who had previously observed this bird in 
Sutherland. In 1847 that gentleman obtained by a Ceesarian operation a specimen 
of the egg—fully formed but not fully coloured (Zoologist, 1848, p. 2015).—-Eb. ] 
