930 TRINGA STRIATA. 
hollow in the moss at the very top. I saw the bird, I believe, near 
where the Skuas breed on Sandée. 
(This parapraph is from an entry in Mr, Wolley’s ‘ Egg-book,’ made from 
the original notes of his Frréese excursion some time after his return. | 
§ 4064. Three.—Trodum, Sandée, Feroe, 1851. From 
Sysselmand M: A. Winther. 
These rare and satisfactory eggs arrived at Beeston from Feerée in 
the autumn of 1851, and I opened the box on the 22nd of December. 
They were carefully wrapped in tow in a box by themselves, within 
the great box, and with them was a bit of paper with the word 
“ Tringa” written in pencil. They were all blown alike in Herr 
Winther’s fashion, with two holes on one side. He evidently 
distinguishes the Purple Sandpiper from the Dunlin, as he writes 
(12 August, 1851) : “I am sure there are two kinds of them 
[Tringa|, which breed near the Skua-Gulls in Trodum.” I myself 
saw the Purple Sandpiper perched on stones at that spot in 1849 ; 
but I do not remember to have seen the Dunlin exactly there. These 
eggs measure 19 lines by 124 and 18 by 13 about. 
[Mr. Wolley, as his notes shew, instituted a careful comparison between 
these eggs and others—Dunlings’ and reputed Purple Sandpipers’,—coming to 
the conclusion that these might safely be attributed to the latter. } 
§ 4065. Four.—'Trodum, 1853. ‘ With bird.” From Syssel- 
mand Winther. 
Hewitson, ‘ Eggs of British Birds,’ ed. 3, pl. ciii. figs. 1, 3. 
Sent, with others, by Herr Winther: these wrapped up in a coil 
of paper, upon which is written “ 7yinga belonging to the bird.” 
They were still safely contained in the paper, and cannot have been 
mixed in any way since they were packed. In his letter, dated 
Trodum, 28th of November, 1853, Herr Winther says :—“I have 
got several [nests] of Tringa, and if it should happen to be of different 
kinds, I have packed the eggs of each single nest in a cornet [cone 
of paper] by themselves, and in one of these cornets or packets you 
will find the bird together with its eggs. You can be quite sure of 
its identity because I took the eggs from the nest myself, and shot 
the bird too after I had seen it actually leaving the nest.” The only 
