TOTANUS OCHROPUS. ie 
the four eggs which he retained and afterwards sent to Mr. Hewitson, 
who figured three of them in March 1855 (Eggs of Br. Birds, ed. 3, pl. xl*.). 
Those three remained in Mr. Tristram’s cabinet. The present egg has been 
blown at the ends, and had no mark upon it until I inscribed it. I think that 
on a former occasion Mr. Tristram told me that he had bought some Green 
Sandpipers’ eggs of Dr. Kjrbilling or some other dealer, and from the mode 
of blowing and the absence of identifying marks this may be one of those so 
obtained. It appears from the catalogue of the sale just mentioned that six 
specimens of this bird’s egg were put up (Lots 135-140), of which Mr. Gurney 
bought two, and the remaining four were, I suspect, those which I saw in 
Mr. Tristram’s Collection at Castle Eden, 5 August, 1858, this being one of 
them. | 
[§ 3786. 7wo.—From Dr. Kjerbdlling, 1859. 
P. Z. S. 1863, p. 582. 
Bought by me at Copenhagen, 24 October, 1859, of Dr. Kjzerbolling. One 
of them bears the name of “ Printz” written by him, as well as a ticket with 
“Tand” onit by an unknown hand. In the bill he has put down “ Norge”’ 
as the locality for this egg, and, as I found afterwards, Dr. Printz was a 
resident in the district in that country known as Valders, from which Land, 
on the Rands-fjord, is not far distant; but when I first saw Dr. Kjerbdélling, 
he said “‘ Pommern,” and assured me that they were from the forester who 
first discovered this bird’s eggs, as recorded by German writers (ut supra) 
some years ago, namely Hintz—but from the similarity of sound perhaps he 
confounded the two names. These eggs are possibly referred correctly to 
T. ochropus, but there are some varieties of those of T. glareola which are very 
like them. I should, however, imagine that the eggs of one species would be 
as liable to variation as those of the other. These were the only eggs 
attributed to 7. ochropus that the Doctor then had.] 
[§ 3787. Four.—Cartzin, Pomerania, 9 May, 1861. From 
Forester Hintz, through HH. Erichsen, Fischer, and 
Theobald. 
P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 531. 
In sending me these eggs Pastor Theobald copied the account given to him 
in 1861 by the Forester Hintz, as already published (Proce. Zool. Soc. 1863, 
pp. 581, 682) :—* This year I succeeded in finding the nest of Totanws ochropus. 
On the 9th of May I took four eggs of this bird (with my own hand’) ; they 
were found in an old nest of Turdus musicus, and seemed to have been incubated 
about three days. The very same day there were brought to me four other 
1 [The words within the parentheses were omitted by an oversight from the 
paper as printed.—Ep. ] 
