210 TRINGA MINUTA. 
Rubus arcticus, a tuft of round-stemmed green Carex (C. rariflora). A little 
further off, the now flowerless plants of the sweet-scented Ledum palustre, and 
branches and patches of long white grass, and plants of small Eriophoron 
vaginatum and E. polystachyon var. latifolium.... Simeon coming up again, 
having left in search of another nest, caught the fourth young of the other 
[pair of] birds. Mr. Seebohm had come up some time before, and we all four 
sat echoing the sentiments uppermost in our thoughts at the time. ... Both 
birds were shot, the bird of the nest with the eggs and the bird of the four 
young. The turf, a foot square, holding the nest, was cut out carefully with 
a knife, and the mass, including the Rubus arcticus, the yellow Sphagnum, and 
the tuft of Carex, placed carefully in a handkerchief, with a piece of cloth 
rolled up and put in the nest, and the three old birds put in paper bags care- 
fully numbered.” These last, I regret to say, perished in the fire at Dunipace, 
which in 1897 destroyed all Mr. Harvie-Brown’s fine collections, and it is 
sad to think that the present, and the Grey Plover’s eggs before entered 
(§§ 3365-8368), are all that remain of his Russian spoils. ] 
[§ 3969. Four.—South Goose Cape, Nova Zembla, 8 July, 
1894. From Mr. Arnold Pike, through Mr. Tristram. 
These were given to me by Canon Tristram, with whom they had been left by 
Mr. Arnold Pike, and that gentleman subsequently wrote to me :—“ The Little 
Stints were breeding ona marsh, and also on a dry hill-side, near South Goose 
Cape, The nests containing three and four on July 9th. I took eleven eggs 
in the course of a short walk. I could doubtless have taken more had I wished 
to do so, as I saw more birds which were evidently breeding there. I saw 
none on the Northern Island; but I was ashore only along the coast about 
Admiralty Peninsula.” Canon Tristram informed me that with these eges 
Mr. Pike left with him for determination the skin of a hen Tringa minuta, 
marked ‘‘shot off the eggs sent” ; but it seems that the different sets were not 
kept separate, and it is therefore not certain that these four are from the same 
nest. The discrepancy between the 8th and the 9th July is immaterial, where 
an Arctic summer is concerned. | 
[§ 3970. Zwo—Golchika, Jennesei River, 19 July, 1895. 
From Mr. C. B. Hill. 
Mr. Popham, whom Mr. Hill accompanied on this occasion, wrote in ‘The 
This’ for 1897 (p. 105) of this species that it passes through Jenniseisk on the 
spring migration, and did not occur to them till latitude 71° N. was reached, 
when they captured down-clad young. “ Eggs and more downy young were 
afterwards found at Golchika, where the birds were fairly numerous and 
extremely tame.’’ He goes on to say that the eggs obtained differed a good 
deal from those of Tringa temmincki, which they found breeding further to the 
southward than 7. minuta, being of a much darker buff ground-colour, and 
slightly smaller. “ Of 7. minuta two females were shot from their nests.” ] 
