206 CALIDRIS ARENARITA. 
[§ 3964. Oxe-—Barren Ground, Anderson River, 29 June, 
1863. ‘“ Birdshot.” From the Smithsonian Institution, 
through Prof. Baird, 1870. 
Proc. Zool. Soc. 1871, p. 56, pl. iv. fig. 2. 
The label accompanying this egg shews that it was one of a nest of four, 
from which the hen bird was shot (no. 36080) by Mr. R. MacFarlane during 
his stay on the Anderson River. The nest is described as being of ‘‘ Hay and 
decayed leaves.” That gentleman’s note (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 427) 
is as follows :—“ On 29th June, 1863, we discovered a nest of this species, ‘the 
only one at that time known to naturalists,’ on the Barren Grounds about 
10 miles west of Franklin Bay. The nest was composed of withered hay and 
leaves placed in a small cavity or depression in the ground, and it contained 
four eggs, which were quite fresh. The female was snared. It is a very rare 
bird in that quarter, and we never afterwards succeeded in finding another 
nest.” The discrepancy of the statement as to how the hen bird was killed 
may have arisen from indistinct writing. Prof. Baird undoubtedly wrote in 
the first instance “ shot,’ perhaps a misreading of the word “snared,” which 
may have been less expected. It is, however, clear that this egg is from the 
first nest ever taken and identified by a competent authority, though I think 
not the first of the species ever figured. I exhibited it to the Zoological 
Society, 17 January, 1871.] 
[§ 3965. Zen.—Sabine Island, Last Greenland, 1870? From 
the Second German North-Polar Expedition, through 
Dr. Otto Finsch, 1871. 
Proe. Zool. Soe. 1871, pp. 546, 547. 
Zweite deutsche Nordpolarfahrt, ii. pp. 240-242. 
These, with other eggs (§§ 3419, 3512) collected by Dr. Adolf Pansch in 
the Second German North-Polar Expedition, were kindly transmitted to me by 
Dr. Finsch, with the assurance that they had been obtained on Sabine Island, 
where only four species of Limzcole—namely, A%gialitis hiaticola, Strepsilas 
interpres, Tringa striata, and Calidris arenaria—were observed. As they 
obviously could not belong to any of the first three, it followed they must be 
those of the fourth. Some of them correspond remarkably with the eggs from 
the first identified nest taken on the Anderson Riyer (§ 3964), while others 
shew, as already stated, a likeness to that which ww Wolley and I procured 
in Iceland (§ 38963). These eggs reached me in very bad condition—one had not 
been blown at all, and others were little more than half shells. They were 
taken in hand by Mr. Salvin, who, mounting the worst on selected Dunlings’ 
eggs, made their remains presentable. They were exhibited by me at a Meeting 
of the Zoological Society on the 20th of June, 1871, and are fully described in 
the Zoology of the Expedition (ui supra). Unfortunately Dr. Pansch seems 
to have made no notes concerning them, but a young half-fledged specimen 
obtained on Sabine Island in August, 1869, was included in the collection 
