TRINGA TEMMINCKI. OES 
but they were not yet breeding. The name Theodore and Ludwig 
knew it by, talking with us, is Minste Strandtricka; but Ludwig says 
it is called here Ranta-siepi, and that his uncle used to get its skins, 
and say they were rare birds—indeed there seem to be very few of 
them. Several men down the river have said they knew them, but 
none have ever seen the nest. This one was ina perfectly even piece 
of grass, though there were hummocks and more likely-looking 
ground near. It must be very difficult to find even where the bird is, 
Hence the great value of these eggs. 
§ 3975. Zwo.—Kaaressuando, 1853. 
These I bought of Pastor Engelmark at Kaaressuando on the 
8th of December. His son Lassi said they were Liros’ 1, and that 
some of them had been found by Nialima’s lads. I sent over for 
these boys, and on their arrival they said that each of the two had 
found a nest, that it was the little marsh-bird called Liro, that it 
sat upon stakes or buildings and hovered in the air very near over 
their heads. The nests were not far from the houses. The boys at 
once selected the eggs from a considerable number, perhaps with 
one or two mistakes, but it was by candlelight, and they shewed 
satisfactorily that they knew them. The other nests of this bird 
were found by the side of the lake which is in front of the prestgard 
[parsonage]. On first seeing the eggs I recognized them as being 
of the same kind as I had obtained at Muonioniska [§ 3974]. There 
is a specimen of Tringa temmincki in the Stockholm Museum from 
Kaaressuando. 
[There were fourteen of these eggs thus bought, of which the above two, 
having been given to my brother and myself, alone remain in the collection, 
The remaining twelve formed Lots 145 to 155 at Mr, Stevens’s sale-room, 
26 January, 1855, where they were soid to Messrs. Burney (2), Gurney (3), 
Milner (2), Walter (4), and Wilmot. | 
§ 3976. Four.—Kaaressuando, 20 June, 1854. “J. W. 
Nest found by Salomon Johansson, alias Anonti’s Salko, a little 
boy in Ala-pallo, or the lower part of Kaaressuando, placed in a 
hole the bird had formed in a tuft, in a kind of cup or valley in the 
pasture-land a long way from the water. He at once brought them 
' [Liro is properly Wood-Sandpiper, as Mr. Wolley afterwards found 
(§ 3747),—Ep. } 
