162 TOTANUS GLAREOLA. 
from Herr Johann von Frivaldsky. In 1902 Mr. Dresser himself took eggs of 
this species in the same county, as he mentions in ‘The Field’ newspaper of 
7 March, 1903 (p. 398):—“ The nests were on a grassy patch between two 
small pieces of water... . Each nest was a cup-shaped depression in a tuft of 
erass, scantily lined with a few dry bents.” The eggs vary greatly, even 
those in the same nest differing from each other. | 
TOTANUS GLAREOLA (Gmelin). 
WOOD-SANDPIPER. 
§ 3742. One.—Valkenswaard, North Brabant, 1851. From 
Messrs. A. & EK. Newton. 
This supposed egg of Totanus glareola J received from Mr. Alfred 
Newton, who [with his brother] had obtained direct from Holland a 
number of eggs [§ 1466], and among them about a dozen marked 
“ Whitestart Sandpiper,’ which Mr. Yarrell, Dr. Frere, and I have 
pronounced to be Dunlins’, and five others sent as “ Grey-legged ”’ 
and “ Red-legged ” Sandpiper, four of which Mr. Yarrell and others 
believe to be 7. glareola, and one which he decided to be a Common 
Sandpiper’s ; but I incline to the belief that all are 7. glareola. 
Mr. Newton writes of these last :—‘“‘They are like what I have 
received in other years as Whitestart Sandpipers’, and have hitherto 
believed to belong to T. ochropus. No skin of the last has been 
sent, but several of 7’. glareola.” 
[There has been no question for a long while that this and some of the eggs 
sent with it, four of which are entered below (§ 3775), are Wood-Sandpipers’. 
They all came to us direct from Arnold Bots, the old falconer, well known to 
Mr. Hoy, who himself found the species breeding in the district, though he 
obtained only one nest with eggs (cf. Hewitson, ‘ Brit. Ool.’ ili. text to pl. cl. 
No. 37, published 1 June, 1858) ; but Bots got them from the country-people, 
who were not careful to distinguish the different nests, and so the eggs were 
mixed with those of the Snipe, Redshank, and Dunlin. As the great amount 
of variation to which Wood-Sandpipers’ eggs are subject was not appreciated 
in 1851, the hesitation expressed by Mr. Yarrell and others as to these 
specimens is not surprising. | 
§ 3743. Four.—Muonioniska, 16 June, 1853. 
These eggs were brought to me by a little boy as belonging to 
“* Ranta-tiutti’’ |Shore-Sandpiper]. He had found the nest a week 
