TOTANUS FUSCUS., 143 
(Naturhist. Tidsskr. ser. 2, i. p. 206) as inhabiting marshes in the fir-woods— 
a misleading statement commonly repeated by subsequent writers, shewing 
that they did not know its peculiar choice of a nesting-site. In like manner 
Prof. Collett must certainly have been misinformed ( Vidensk. Selsk. Férhandl. 
1868, p. 55) as to its breeding in no small numbers in the northern parts of 
Norway, as well as on the islands ', even the Lofoten, for on none of them, nor, 
as has been asserted, in Hast Finmark (except possibly in the very small fir- 
growing district of the South Varanger), can such localities be found as it 
affects, of which fact Scandinavian ornithologists still seem hardly aware. | 
§ 3636. One—Out of bird sent from Holland. From 
Mr. Green, 1852. 
I gave Green ten shillings for this egg, 6 January, 1852. He cut 
it out of the bird two or three years ago, and in all probability it had 
not come to the full colour. Green asked Mr. Milner a pound for 
it, and he offered ten shillings which Green refused. Green has some 
years bad a good many of the Spotted Redshank in the flesh from 
Holland, and the egg was in one of them. They are sent over in the 
spring in their breeding-dress, and some in autumn in their more 
sober habit. Green shewed me one of the birds. 
[Mr. Wolley seems to have entertained no doubt of Mr. Green’s veracity on 
this occasion; but from what we now know of the breeding-localities of 
Totanus fuscus, it is curious that an egg so completely formed as the present 
should be found in the oviduct of a bird taken in Holland, unless indeed the 
bird had been kept alive for some time, as may have happened. It seems 
unlikely that a bird actually on passage should contain an egg fully developed 
as to size. In colour it isremarkably wanting, being of a very pale greyish-blue, 
with a few specks of dark brown, not in the least resembling the large blotches 
or spots usually characteristic of the eggs of this species. I should add that 
Mr. Green bore a far higher character than most of those in his trade. } 
§ 3637. Three —Palajoki, 28 May, 1854. 
The fourth had been smashed. Found by Adam Hauki on a dry 
hill near a marsh—reindeer-moss about. He said he saw the bird 
quite near, and it was doubtless Mustatiutti, otherwise Riivattu. 
1 [No importance can be attached to the statement in the Catalogue of a 
Collection that it contained a specimen of this bird taken at ‘‘ Kjeringd, Norway, 
July, 1852, on nest with eggs.” I mention it only lest it might be supposed to 
have escaped my notice.—Ep. | 
