lie TOTANUS OCHROPUS. 
(pp. 460, 461) !, wherein he stated that he had known of this remarkable habit of 
T. ochropus since 1818, in which year he had discovered it, but having in those 
days no correspondents with whom to exchange eggs, he had contented himself with 
taking only a few for his own collection, and, as it would seem, never gave publicity 
to his observations 2. Even when this wonderful habit of the bird did become known 
it seems to have excited little interest among the ornithologists of his country. 
Equally obscure are the facts of the independent discovery, made, it would seem, 
by Mr. Wheelwright, who in his ‘Ten Years in Sweden,’ published in 1865, says 
(p. 373) :—“I do not believe any naturalist had seen the really authentic egg of 
this bird until I discovered its breeding habits [in Varmland] some few years since. 
In Sweden the Green Sandpiper never makes a nest on the ground, like the nest of 
its congeners, but invariably lays its four pyriform large eggs ... in an old 
deserted nest of a Squirrel, Jay, or Crow (I have, however, seen them in a new 
common Thrush’s nest) in the forest, often far from water, always in a fir tree, 
sometimes forty feet from the ground.” In what year that capital observer first 
ascertained this fact I know not, but it was certainly unknown to Professor 
Nilsson in 1858, when the third edition of the ornithological portion of his 
‘ Skandinavisk Fauna’ appeared, for he was particularly unhappy in the account he 
eave (Foglarna, ii. p. 220) of the nidification of this species. Dr. Printz, of Valders 
in Norway, may, however, have anticipated Herr Hogdahl and Mr, Wheelwright, 
but his reticence on the subject seems to have been complete. | 
§ 3784. Z7wo.—* Virmland,’ Sweden. From Dr. Kjerbolling, 
1857. 
P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 582. 
Exchanged with me [at Copenhagen, 6 October, 1857] by Dr. Kjer- 
bélling for a Greenshank’s egg. He says that the name “ Totanus 
glareola” on one of them is through the ignorance of the collector, 
who has succeeded the more knowing Apothecary Hoégdahl in 
Varmland. 
(When Dr. Kjzrbélling wrote his account of this species for his ‘ Danmarks 
Fugle’ (p. 292), published in 1852, he evidently had no knowledge of its 
peculiar breeding-habits; nor could he, five years later, have mentioned them 
to Mr. Wolley, or the latter would have been sure to notice them in this entry. 
Herr Hégdahl, who lived until 1904, as I learn from Dr. Ottosson, never 
published anything on the subject. | 
[§ 3785. Onxe.—From Mr. Tristram, 1858. 
Mr. Tristram told me that this was one of those taken by him in Norway in 
1852, of which some were sold at Stevens’s, 9 May, 1854, and was one of 
1 [It appeared in Heft vi., which was only received in England in 1863,—Ep.] 
2 [His silence has since been redeemed by a series of exceilent annual Reports 
on the birds of his neighbourhood, published in the ‘ Journal fiir Ornithologie,’ 
reference to several of which is made further ou.—Eb. | 
