BG TRINGA TEMMINCKI. 
to me, and I took a circle of snares, and soon the bird was unfortu- 
nately throttled. It turns out to be, as I anticipated, Tringa 
temmincki. Others are about, trillmg something lke a Grasshopper- 
Warbler. The eggs quite fresh. 
§ 3977. Three—Muonioniska, 27 June, 1854. 
Hewitson, ‘ Eggs of British Birds,’ ed. 3, pl. ci. fig. 1? 
Found by Regina’s son, and brought to me just afterwards. I 
went to see the place, and after some search we found the nest itself, 
made of hay or fine grass, slight and placed three or four paces from 
the water, among long grass, on the niemi [point], opposite Regina’s 
house, which separates the river from the Muonio-triisk [lake]. The 
bird got up close to tlie nest, with its characteristic call, so that I could 
not hesitate as to the species. We, however, set a snare, but without 
effect. The eggs were quite fresh. My visit was made about 
midnight. 
[A fourth of these was lent to Mr. Hewitson to be drawn, but Mr. Wolley 
doubted whether the figure 1 in his plate was really taken from it; and as 
the specimen is not now forthcoming, I cannot decide the point, though I 
cannot understand from whom else Mr, Hewitson was likely to have obtained 
an ege. | 
§ 3978. Three. 
Hewitson, ‘Eggs of British Birds, ed. 3, pl. ci. fig. 2. 
Muonioniska, 29 June, 1854. 
Found by Carolina Knoblock on the south promontory of the 
great island, Oiasen-saari, in the river here. Ludwig and Anton 
went to snare the bird, and it went into the snare while they sat not 
more than six feet from the nest. They brought it alive to me, and 
I put it into a cage for the night, expecting it would lay a fourth 
egg. In the morning I made a more careful examination and found 
it was a cock-bird of Tringa temmincki, with no bare space on the 
belly. The dark blotches on its back were numerous. I let it fly 
through the window. Next night I went to see the nest, and found 
it towards the top of a sloping bank, made of grass with a few dead 
- last year’s sallow-leaves in the middle. I saw also one of the birds 
not far off. In the meantime I had blown out the eggs and found 
them several days sat on. Carolina had also found another nest not 
far from the first, with a single faded egg, which exploded on being 
touched. It had been covered with water during the [recent] floods. 
