ACTITIS HYPOLEUCA. yey 
Capt. Blakiston in Japan in 1864 (Ibis, 1867, p. 193), Mr. Whitely continued 
for several years to receive collections of birds and eggs from that country, even 
after his son quitied it. 
This egg, clearly that of a Limicoline bird, does not closely resemble that 
of any other that I know. It has a pale clay-coloured ground with many 
(though not large) blotches and spots of two shades of liver-brown, and a few 
of greyish-lilac—the whole somewhat recalling the look of eggs of Scolopar 
or Actitwrus, but the shape is truly pyriform, and it measures 1:68 by 1:2 inch. 
ACTITIS HYPOLEUCA (Linneus). 
SUMMER-SNIPE or COMMON SANDPIPER. 
§ 3799. One.—Sedberg, Yorkshire. Not later than 1843. 
Found by Mr. Biden, of St. John’s Coliege. He saw the bird on 
the nest. 
§ 3800. Ove.—Assynt, Sutherland, 22 May, 1849. “J. W. 
ipse.” 
I went with the landlord’s boat and two hands to examine the 
islands of the loch. Found some old Goose’s eggs, and a nest of 
Gobarleery, as the Common Sandpiper, from the noise it makes in 
the breeding-season, is called in Gaelic in Sutherland. At a second 
visit in the evening the bird was on the nest, and allowed me tc 
approach to within a foot of it. The eggs I marked, and I saw the 
bird quite distiuctly to be the Common Sandpiper. 
§ 3801. Zwo. 
Assynt, 23 May, 1849. 
§ 3802. One. 
From two more Gobarleerys’ nests, off one of which I saw the 
bird fly. 
§ 3803. Three —Inchnadamph, Sutherland, 1849. 
3rought to me. 
IPANIRAM JOE N 
