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[§ 3971. Four—Dolga Bay, Waaigat Island, 6 July, 1897. 
From Mr. H. J. Pearson. 
Mr. Pearson wrote to me:—“ The egos I sent you were found by my men 
(crew) near ‘Stint Lake,’ so named from the number of this species we saw 
there, about two miles inland from Dolga Bay in the north-west corner 
of Waaigat. The nest in marshy ground among coarse grass: the eges fresh.” 
In his note on this species as observed during his voyage in 1897 (Ibis, 1898, 
pp. 209, 201), Mr. Pearson states that next to the Snow-Bunting it was the 
commonest in Waaigat, “and especially numerous at the heads of Dolea Bay 
and other inlets of the sea.” The birds “did not confine themselves to the 
neighbourhood of the shore, a number breeding round the lakes, two to three 
miles inland.” His party took 183 eggs, of which he figured a dozen as a 
frontispiece to his work ‘ Beyond Petsora Eastward,’ besides giving a view 
(plate 24) from a photograph of “ Stint Lake,” and in the narrative (pp. 88, 89) 
mentioned finding at least nine nests of this bird on the day this nest was taken. 
The series of Little Stints’ eges in his collection, obtained on this, as well as 
his voyage of 1895, which he was so kind as to shew me, is, of course, 
unrivalled. ] 
[§ 8972. Four. Matyushin Shar, Nova Zembla, 16 July, 1903. 
From Hill.” J. Koren. and HH, . 1. - Eh. 
[§ 3973. Four. Schaanning, through Mr. Marsden. 
In November, 1903, Mr. Marsden wrote to me that he was expecting some 
eggs of the Little Stint and other birds, taken during the last summer in 
Nova Zembla by two Norwegian collectors, and kindly offered to send me 
some on approval. I gladly availed myself of the opportunity, and in due 
course of time four complete nestfuls of this species reached me, from which I 
selected two and returned the others. He afterwards gave me the name of 
the collectors, and kindly sent me the copy of an interesting account of their 
doings by one of them, Herr Koren. Subsequently, through the kindness of 
Prof. Collett, who knew them both, I was able to enter into communication 
with the other, Herr Schaanning, who favoured me with the particulars I 
here translate from his letter :—“ These eggs were found on the 16th of July 
at Matotschkin Shar. They lay on a grassy marsh, beset with dry bare 
ridges, on which we obtained altogether seventeen nests with eggs—tilteen 
being found on the same night. The nests were spread about some 300 to 
500 metres apart from one another. The eggs, which in all the nests were 
four in number, lay in a hollow furnished with fine dry grass-stalks, on one of 
the above-named bare ridges on the borders of the marshy tract. At each 
of the seventeen nests only one bird was observed and shot. In fifteen of 
them it was certainly the cock, and in two only the hen, and in three nests 
the eggs were almost fresh-laid. The hen at the nest was shy, always rising 
from it and flying a long way off, and was sometimes an hour before she 
came hack to the eggs. The cock, on the other hand, was extraordinarily 
little shy, but got off the nest and ran, sometimes walking, round it, and by 
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