186 MACHETES PUGNAX. 
MACHETES PUGNAX (Linneeus). 
REEVE. 
§ 3875. Zwo.—From Mr. R. Mansfield, 1844. 
These two eggs from R. Mansfield. They were marked “ Ruff,” 
which they undoubtedly are—see Mr. Hewitson’s figures [Brit. 
Oology, pl. exxiv., and Eggs Brit. B. pl. lxxxiv.]|. He had numbers 
of them. 
(Mr. Mansfield was a dealer living at Birmingham, but travelling a good deal 
about the country, and these eggs appear to have been bought of him at 
Cambridge, in January, 1844, But for the fact of his having so many of them, 
they might well be British specimens, for in 1845—the latest year in which 
they could have been taken—a few Reeves still bred in Cambridgeshire 
(cf. § 8904) and Huntingdonshire, where he had many acquaintances among the 
fenmen; but even at that time great numbers were imported into England 
from the Continent, as they continued to be for a good many years after. ] 
§ 3876. Twelve.—Leadenhall Market, 1849. 
Bought for me by Dr. Frere: no doubt from Holland, or the 
neighbouring countries. 
§ 3877. Zen.—Leadenhal! Market, 1850. 
§ 3878. Nineteen.—Leadenhall Market, 1851. 
Out of twenty-two. I bought altogether six dozen eggs [ Reeve, 
Redshank, Snipe, &c.], which I was allowed to pick, for a shilling 
the dozen. 
§ 3879. Sivteen.—Leadenhall Market, 1851. From Dr. Frere. 
§ 3880. Four—Karto-uoma, Muonioniska, 18 June, 1853. 
fe Rivdsshote. J. Wa 
These from the same fen as before mentioned [§ 4177], late in the 
evening. The bird did not fly, but ran from the nest before Theodore, 
who said it was Brushane, from his knowledge of that bird about 
Haparanda. Some time afterwards I returned, and the bird flew off 
