174 TOTANUS OCHROPUS. 
eggs of this bird, also found in a Thrush’s nest. ..... The 10th of May there 
was shewn to me a nest, thirty feet high, in an old birch, the bird having 
chosen the decayed nest of a Squirrel. This nest was the highest I have ever 
seen. Three young ones had just been hatched; in the fourth egg the bird 
was about to break the shell. One jumped down and concealed itself on the 
edge of a water-pool. The 11th of May a nest with four fresh eggs was found, 
but they did not come into my hands; this was in an old Pigeon’s nest on a 
Pinus rubra, and full of dry pine-leaves. The 20th of May two eggs, almost 
burst by the young, were found in an old Thrush’s nest, the two missing birds 
having most likely already left the nest. The 22nd of May four young ones, 
apparently but a few hours old, were found in the old nest of a Lanius collurio, 
in a juniper three feet high. The 24th of May four young ones were found in 
the hole of a Populus tremula thrown down by the wind. The year before 
Muscicapa luctuosa had its nest in the trunk as it lay on the ground; this year 
Totanus ochropus had chosen the same opening. When I approached the 
trunk, the young ones, perhaps four-and-twenty hours old, jumped away and 
hid themselves in the grass among the branches. All these nests were near 
the water—two on the edge of. a rivulet, the others on wet morasses, the 
distance from the water being at most six feet.” 
Pastor Theobald further wrote that the Forester added :—“ Knowing now 
better the breeding places and time, I hope to be next year more successful in 
getting their eggs, but I am almost inclined to think, that on an area of 26,000 
acres of woodland all the nests of 7. ochropus that were there this year have 
been discovered.” The nest of the 9th of May is recorded by Herr Hintz in 
the ‘Journal fiir Ornithologie’ for 1863 (p. 428), and the eggs said to have 
been incubated about three days. They are dark full-coloured specimens. | 
[§ 3788. Four.—Cartzin, 13 May, 1862. From Forester Hintz, 
through HH. Erichsen, Fischer, and Theobald, 1863. 
Herr Theobald’s note is:—‘“ Taken in Pomerania by the Forester Hintz in 
the very same old nest of Turdus musicus in which there were found four eges 
the year before.” These eggs have all the appearance of being, as is said, from 
one nest, but I think they were not laid by the same bird as the preceding, 
being pale in colour, somewhat resembling Woodcocks’, and one leaning 
towards a Common Sandpiper’s. ] 
[§ 3789. Four.—Cartzin, 25 May, 1862. From Forester Hintz, 
through HH. Erichsen, Fischer, and Theobald, 1863. 
The Pastor wrote that these were from the same source, and were found in 
an old nest of Turdus musicus. They are doubtless the produce of one bird, 
and are more like Wood-Sandpipers’ in appearance. The Forester’s notes on 
the breeding of this species in Pomerania in 1862 were printed in the ‘ Journal 
fiir Ornithologie’ for 1864 (pp. 108, rectiws 92, & 99 bis). He found four nests 
in 1862 against six in 1861. ] 
