TOTANUS OCHROPUS. 175 
[§ 3790. Mour.—Cartzin, 26 April, 1863. From Forester Hintz, 
through HH. Erichsen, Fischer, and Theobald, 1864. 
Herr Theobald informed me that these were also found in an old nest of 
Turdus musicus, adding that ‘The Forester has promised to send me one or two 
old nests, in which the eggs of Totanus ochropus were found, and you will get 
them later.” Herr Hintz’s notes on the nesting of this bird in 1863 are in the 
‘Journal fiir Ornithologie’ for 1864 (pp. 186, 193). He seems to have found 
six nests in 1865 and four in 1862.] 
[§ 3791. Four.—Gardsjé, Varmland,  ) 
28 May, 1863. | 
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[§ 3792. Four.—Gardsjé, 6 June, 1863. [ Mr. Wheelwright. 
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[§ 3793. Four.—Gardsjé, 8 June, 1863. 
P. Z. 8. 1863, p. 502. 
All the above I had from Mr. Wheelwright not very long after they were 
taken. Those of the first nest (§ 3791) were sent by him to Mr. Stevens to be 
included in a sale of birdskins and eggs on the 7th July, 1863, but arriving too 
late were obtained from him by me without going through other hands: of 
the remaining eight eges, being the contents of two nests, seven came to me 
direct, and the eighth, which Mr. Wheelwright at first thought too much 
damaged to send, followed shortly after. Writing to me from G&rdsjé near 
Carlstad in Sweden, on the 7th of June, 1863, he said :—“ Now as regards the 
Green Sandpiper, they went to nest very early this year, and now most of 
the eggs are hatched off. I got one fine nest and four eggs just when I came 
home” (towards the end of May) “and shot both old birds ....... Last 
week we got two more nests of four eggs and shot both old females. They 
were all so hard sat on that the bills of the young birds in one or two were 
protruding. I managed, however, with much trouble to pick the young out of 
six, only with large holes, and when laid in the nest the blemish is not 
apparent...... The nests are very shabby, one apparently an old Squirrel’s.” 
On the 2nd of August he wrote that he had that day sent off to me these “two 
old nests and seven eggs of Green Sandpiper, with two old female birds, and 
in each nest is written full particulars of its taking, &c.”’ These duly reached 
me, but I found to my regret that all the eggs bore the same number, whence 
I fear that they may have been mixed, and the particulars were very scanty, 
being merely to the effect that the nests were in fir-trees in Bakka Wood, 
which is part of the forest near G&rdsj6, from twenty-five to thirty feet from 
the ground, One of them looked like a Dove’s, being wholly of fir-twigs, the 
other was mostly of moss and a mere ruin. The skins were undoubtedly those 
of Totanus ochropus. The eighth egg, or what remained of it, came subse- 
quently. The nest with the eggs which I received through Mr. Stevens had a 
coarse foundation of green moss, and might well have been a Squirrel’s. j 
