ge TRINGA STRIATA. 
§ 4071. Four —Greenland. From Captain Holboll, through 
Mr. S. Stevens, 1855. 
The box in which these were is now before me. On it is written, 
in Holbéll’s writing apparently, “ 4 Tringa maritima taken from one 
nest: the bird is marked N 3. L.”’ The four eggs inside were those 
upon which I have just written, but one of them is blown differently 
from the other three, and being more greasy to write upon, I have 
little doubt it is from a different nest. These eggs are all bigger 
than my Feréese and supposed Norway [$ 4070] ones. I have the 
skin belonging to these Greenland eggs and must compare it with 
/uropean specimens to see whether it is not larger. 
[There seems to me to be no difference in size worth regarding, but the egg 
blown from one hole at the side dves differ from the other three, blown by 
holes at the ends, and certainly justifies Mr. Wolley’s suspicion. Other egys 
bought at the same time are mentioned (§§ 184, 185, and 2188).} 
§ 4072. Zhree.—Wafaleiti, South-western Iceland, 15 June, 
1858. 
Found by one Jén, commonly called Jén Hird (being a shepherd), 
a boy in the service of Gunnar Haldorsson [of Kyrkjuvogr]. He 
said that it [the bird] was not Léa-prell but Selningr, and he knew 
it because it was spotted on the breast as on the back. On being 
shewn a skin of Dunlin he said it was certainly not that, for it was 
not black on the breast. In fact the eggs leck like Purple Sand- 
ptper’s, and probably are so. The birds were abundant on the coast 
fat Kyrkjuvogr] till the end of the first week, and even to the present 
day (23rd June) there may be seen as many as seven or eight on the 
shore. We went with the boy to the place where he found the eggs: 
it was a stony flat with a few scattered heath-plants, on the side of 
the hill to the north-east of the inner end of the fjord here, not very 
far from old Kyrkjuvogr church—say a mile or more. The three 
eges brought, which he said were all he found, were two or three 
days,sat upon. The weather has been extremely stormy and usually 
cold throughout the summer. From the 24th of May to the 2nd of 
June Knots were abundant, but not one has shewn itself since 
Mr. Newton saw one on the 10th of June. 
[On the 22nd of June, 1821, Faber shot a male Purple Sandpiper which was 
tending its down-clad young at Fuglavik, a place on the shore immediately 
below Hafaleiti (Prodromus der islandischen Ornithologie, p. 28, and MS. 
Dag-Bok, p. 670).] 
