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closely resemble, by their warmer color. Most of the eggs were collected in 
1883, The first nest was taken on June 20, a full set of eggs slightly incubated. 
Although eyes were found to contain large embryos as early as June 28, perfectly 
fresh eggs were found July 6, and the last eggs brought in, July 12, contained 
only small embryos.” (Op. ett. pp. 111, 112.)] ! 
TRINGA BAIRDI, Coucs. 
i§ 4062. Qne.—Arctic Coast of America, 186—? From the 
Smithsonian Institution, through Prof. Baird, 1886. 
One of Mr. Rt. MacFarlane’s prizes. The Smithsonian ticket merely has 
* Parent 36082 shot near nest,” and the Smithsonian number for this much 
shattered specimen is 9382. Mr. Macfarlane (Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. xiv. 
p. 426) states that a nest of this species was found of the Barren Grounds 0.1 
the 24th of June, 1864, and goes on to say that “It is very uncommon in any 
northern quarter through which he passed, although nests were subsequently 
discovered in the same as well as in other localities.”’ } 
(§ 4063. Ove.—Franklin Bay, Arctic Coast, 1865. From the 
United States National Museum, through Prof. Baird, 
1886. 
Obtained by Mr. R. MacFarlane as above, the Smithsonian Catalozue 
d d fea) 
number being 14037, and vouched for by Captain Ch. E. Bendire, in charge of 
the Oological Departmeat of the United States National Museum. ] 
TRINGA STRIATA, Linneus. 
PURPLE SANDPIPER. 
Of Purple Sandpipers I shot the young, just beginning to fly, with 
one of the old birds, very near the top of Loysinga I*jadl [13 July, 
1849]. The nest, as a man declared it was, formed by a round 
‘|The wonderful habit of the male in the breeding-season to inflate its throat, 
first noticed by Dr. Mdward Adams, Surgeon of H.M.S. ‘ Kuterprise ’ (Proc. Zool. 
Soe. 1859, p. 150), was observed in 1879 by Mr, E. W. Nelson, who described and 
figured a bird so behaving (Auk, i. p. 220, and ‘ Report upon Nat. Hist. Collections 
made in Alaska,’ pp. 108, 109, pl. viii. Washington: 1887). —Kp. | 
