TOTANUS FUSCUS. Toil 
an air of certainty and of truth. As the eggs lie before me 
(11th June) fresh blown, their greenish colour seems to exclude 
Redshank from the question. They have not the style of Reeves’ 
and they are too large for Snipes’. The season, too, is unusually 
late. 
§ 3669. Oze—Niuvunki, 21 June, 1857. 
Of four brought with other eggs to Knoblock by Piko Heiki on 
11th July, and laid aside, as containing large young, to be blown 
by me. Found by Ankkuri-Niemin Johan’s son Matthias, on 
the 21st June in Korkia-maa, between Niuvunki and Sarki-lompalo. 
He saw the bird and knew it to be Mustatiutti. 
[One of them was sent by Mr. Wolley to the Museum at Berne. | 
Mellavaara, 22 June, 1857. 
§ 3670. One. 
Out of four found by Niemi’s Abraham [Apoo] on Mellavaara as 
late as the 22nd of June. I myself saw birds at Saivoi very late, but 
apparently scarcely yet breeding. Abraham said he saw Mustatiutti 
near the nest; but also some other kinds of swamp-birds. I have 
blown these eggs with the exception of one, that I failed in. 
[I know not what is become of the remaining two. | 
§ 3671. Four. 
Ounas-tunturi, June, 1857. 
§ 3672. Four. | 
Found and named by the Lapp, Johan Eric Marti (brother of the 
well-known Martin Piety), as he himself told me at my visit to his 
kota [hut] in June. He had sent off these eggs a day or two before 
by the hand of Joel, son of Nalima Niku, who brought them to 
Knoblock on the 5th July. Four were broken on the way by the 
carelessness of a woman, and these [broken] four, according to 
the boy, were a complete nest ; but it is evident by the character of 
the eggs that he was wrong, and that the nests were as I have classed 
them—the ground-colour and the character of the spots both shew 
this. A very trustworthy Lapp; he said he recognized the birds 
of both nests. 
[As Mr. Wolley rightly determined, two eggs of each nest have been 
injured. | 
