134 TOTANUS GLOTTIS. 
I got the other eggs from, which I have no doubt is the Greenshank. I will 
not send tiie eggs till I hear from you.” Sent the other eggs were, soon after, 
torether with the Sea-Eagle’s (§§ 72,75), the Merlin’s (§ 246), and the 
Hen-Harrier’s (§ 449), all taken by the same Donald M‘Kay. ] 
§ 3585. Zwo.—Strathnaver, Sutherland, 1852. 
Four eggs: two sent to Mr. Alfred Newton, or left to be called for 
by him, and two (broken) put into boxes: the former were blown. 
They were obtained by Donald M‘Kay in Sutherland last year and 
received by me this 12th April, 1853. He had written 25 June, 
1852: “I got word of ashepherd in Strathnaver having Greenshank 
eggs, and wrote to him about them”; and again 26th March, 1853 : 
“T am sorry the eggs are not better. Two of them, as you will find, 
are not touched in the way of blowing, which I faney rotted the 
shell. In fact I fear none of them will be worth the trouble of 
sending.” 
(Mr. Wolley, it will be seen, received these eggs only a few days before his 
first departure for Lapland, and hence, seeing their condition, sent the two to me 
to treat as I best could. They were in a lamentable state; but being very 
fine specimens were worth taking some trouble about. The fragments of the 
other two I have not found. ] 
§ 3586. Zwo.—Black Mount, Argyll, 1853. 
{These.two eggs, sent by Peter Robertson to Mr. Edge in 1853, would seem 
to have been written upon by Mr. Wolley during his short visit to England in 
1854, but were never properly entered by him in his Egg-book. Robertson’s 
letter to Mr. Edge concerning them is undated and states :—‘‘ You will receive 
herewith two Greenshank eggs. ‘There was another two in the nest, but I had 
to give them away to another gentleman. It is the Greenshank, as the bird 
was shot flying off the nest to make sure.” Again, in a letter from the same 
to the same, dated 11 July, 1853, he wrote :—“ There is no mistake about the 
Greenshank’s eggs, as the bird was shot rising off the nest.” Writing on the 
9th of June, 1852, Robertson had said “ it beat me to find any of the Green- 
shanks’ nests,” and therefore 1853 was the first year in which he could have 
got them for Mr. Wolley. In 1854, he seems not to have got any Greenshanks’, 
nor did he, so far as I know, in 1855. ] 
§ 3587. Zwo.—Kaaressuando, T'ornea Lappmark, 1853. 
Hewitson, ‘Eges of British Birds,’ ed. 3, pl. xci. fig. 3. 
Pastor Engelmark said that these were brought as the eggs of Vikla, 
which I know to be the common name of the Greenshank, and there 
