204 PHALAROPUS FULICARIUS.—CALIDRIS ARENARIA. 
[§ 3962. Zwo.—Green Harbour, Western Spitsbergen, 3 July, 
1894, - From Col. Feilden. 
Most kindly given to me by Col. Feilden, being some of the spoil he 
collected in Spitsbergen in Capt. Townley Parker’s yacht ‘Saide,’ R.Y.C. 
Shortly after his return he wrote (31 July) :—‘‘I was very pleased to have the 
good luck to get the Phalaropes’ egzs—only two—the one with a bird in it, 
the other fresh. The male does the sitting, his breast quite bare; the female, 
a fine lady, only drops the eggs, and apparently does not incubate. The 
pleasure of finding the eggs will only be equalled by your accepting them.” 
Avain a few days later he wrote:—‘ Herewith are the two eggs of P. fuli- 
carius. I also enclose the fragments of the lady who deposited them...... 
On landing on the west side of Green Harbour, 3rd July, where there were 
some smal] lagoons, I saw the bird, whose fragments I send, splashing by the 
side of the water. I ran towards her and shot her. On returning to the 
launch with the bird in my hand, the launchman gave me these two eggs, 
saying that he saw a bird like it leave its nest in the turf close to the launch, 
and took the eggs, two only, out of a small depression, and pointed out the bird 
itself. It was standing by the edge of the shore, close to the water. I shot it. 
It proved to be the male—breast bare from sitting. The female shewed no 
sign of sitting.” In the box with the eggs was a slip of paper stating that 
Col. Feilden had seen tavo pairs of birds at Green Harbour on that day; of the 
eges—one was fresh, the other much incubated. The skin of the hen bird, of 
which he sent me the remains, had unfortunately been torn to pieces by a cat, 
after his return home. Green Harbour is on the south side of Ice Sound, and 
is where Messrs. Birkbeck and Manners-Sutton found Grey Phalaropes, no 
doubt breeding, on 9 July, 1864, just thirty years before (Ibis, 1865, p. 205).] 
CALIDRIS ARENARIA (Linneus)'. 
SANDERLING. 
[§ 3963. One.—Iceland. From Herr Cristian Zimsen, 1858. 
This egg is out of the only collection which Mr. Wolley and I saw or heard 
of in Iceland. Some days before our departure from Reykjavik we were told 
of an egg-collector in the person of a young man in the employment of a 
merchant there. We called upon him and he shewed us what he had, the 
whole consisting, as he told us, of eggs taken in the island, Lut we refrained 
‘ (I may here observe that the egg figured by Mr. Hewitson on plate lxxxiii. of 
his Second Edition as that of the Purple Sandpiper from Mr. Wilmot’s collection is 
now, With the rest of that collection, in the Museum of the University of Cambridge. 
Llis catalogue states that he had it, with another, “from Leadbeater, who had them 
