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[§ 3948. Four.—Saudgerdi, 18 June, 1858. “A. N.” 
Though I waited for some time without seeing the bird come to this nest, 
I have no doubt as to the species to which it belonged. Phalaropus hyper- 
boreus was very plentiful at Sandgerdi, as shewn by the fact that, even so 
early in the season, we found seven completed nests, besides two or three 
wore containing one or two eges. LP. felicarius we had seen nothing of, 
and the bird which seems to answer to its description comes, according to the 
son of the bonde, not sooner than Jénsmessa (24 June). This nest was some 
eighty yards from the place where we found so many, and nearly in the 
middle of a large grassy expanse. | 
[§ 3949. Four—Sandgerdi, 18 June, 1858. “A. N.” 
A complete nest from which I saw the bird run off, with comparatively 
light head, and small patch of red on the neck, smaller and more striped on 
the back. This nest was ona small islet in the mere, only to be reached 
by bridging over the intervening channels by a plank. There were at least 
two other nests on the same islet, besides several Kider-Ducks’. 1 plucked 
away some of the grass and herbage to enable me the better to see the bird 
leave the nest. Ido not know whether this nest was linown before to the 
proprietor’s son as the last was. | 
[§ 3950. Four.—Sandgerdi, 18 June, 1858. “A. N.” 
1 could not be quite sure that I saw the bird run off this nest; but I 
certainly saw a pair of Phalaropus hyperboreus within a few feet of it, and no 
other species about which could have been the owner of it. The eggs of this 
and the two preceding nests I marked, as I took them, with the first three 
letters of the alphabet, and these marks are, as I now write, sufficiently 
distinct. I therefore know they could not have been mixed, Mr. Wolley 
marked his nests with numbers. ] 
[§ 3951. Four.—Sandgerdi, 6 July, 1858. “A. N.” 
A complete nest of four eggs, shewn to me by a little girl, daughter of the 
bonde, as that of Odinshani (P. hyperboreus), which it undoubtedly is. The 
people declared that they had not seen Raudbrystingr, as they there call 
P. fulicarius, this year, nor had we seen it there, though we did see two pairs 
the day before and that very day at U'tskalar (ef. § 3958). | 
[§ 8952. Zhree—Yukon, 16 June, 1861. Mr. Kennicott, 
through the Smithsonian Institution, 1863. 
Professor Baird wrote that with these eggs the parent bird was sent 
(no. 27694), snared. | 
