TOTANUS FLAVIPES.—T. STAGNATILIS. Low 
[§ 3738. Two.—From the late Mr. John Scales’s Collection, 
1885. 
Most likely Norfolk specimens. ] 
TOTANUS FLAVIPES (Gmelin). 
YELLOWLEGS 
(§ 3739. Two.—Barren Ground, Anderson River, 25 June, 
1863. From the Smithsonian Institution, through Prof. 
Baird, 1866 
P. Z. S. 1867, p. 166, pl. xv. fig. 5. 
The label accompanying these eggs shews that they were from a nest of four, 
very near which the female bird (no. 36095) was shot by Mr. R. MacFarlane. 
They were exhibited by me at a meeting of the Zoological Society in 1867, and 
one of them was figured in its ‘ Proceedings’ asabove. Mr. MacFarlane himself 
states of this species (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 428) that it is “Probably 
the most abundant and certainly the noisiest of all the waders met with. 
Nests were found at Tort Anderson, on the Lower Anderson, in the wooded 
country to and along the rivers which flow through the Barren Grounds. In 
many instances the male bird was seen perching on trees in the vicinity, but 
when young were present both parents were particularly noisy, and did all that 
was possible to attract away intruders, while the former soon learned to run 
and screen themselves from view in the grass. Over thirty nest entries are 
recorded, while it is among the earliest of the waders which arrive and breed 
in the region.” | 
TOTANUS STAGNATILIS, Bechstein. 
MARSH-SANDPIPER. 
§ 3740. Two.—“ Hungary.” From Herr Méschler, 1862. 
ears) | 
Herr Moschler wrote to me, on my remarking on the close resemblance 
between the eggs ascribed to this species and those of Terekia, that he did not 
believe the latter ever bred in Hungary, whence he received the present 
specimens. | 
[§ 3741. One.—Apa], Pester Comitat, Hungary, 1855. From 
Mr. Dresser. 
Mr. Dreszer informed me that he obtained this egg at Buda-Pest in 1866 
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