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larger end. We watched this elegant little bird—the only one of the 
Grallatores we saw—with much interest, as it waded into some pool of snow- 
water or ran along the shingle, every now and then raising its wings over its 
back and exhibiting the delicate tint of the underside, at the same time utter- 
ing its loud shrill whistle.’’] 
[§ 4102. Mowr.—Iceland, 1856. From Mr. W. Proctor. 
From the northern part of the island, I believe. ] 
[§ 4103. Zwo.—Cape Reykjanes, Iceland, 24 June, 1858. 
Brought to us at Kyrkjuvogr on the 5rd of July (the day after our return 
from Reykjavik) by Gudmundur Sigurdsson, a vinnwmadr of Gunnar Haldors- 
son, who said he had found them on the 24th June, very near the sulphur- 
springs at Reykjanes, where he had been to look for horses. He told me, 
without my suggesting any names to him, that they were those of either 
Myrispita (Snipe) or Selningr (Purple Sandpiper), that he saw the birds, and 
they were bigger than Léa-prell (Dunling). He further said that there were 
only these two eggs, and they were laid on the sand, with scarcely any nest. 
Mr. Wolley considers them very typical of Z’ringa maritima. I do not think 
them, except in size, unlike those of the Dunling. Snipe’s they certainly are 
not, and on the whole I believe them to be Purple Sandpiper’s. ] 
[§ 4104. One.—Greenland. From Sysselmand Miiller, 1859. 
Given to me in October, 1859, at Copenhagen, where Herr Miiller was 
attending to his legislative duties as “ Folkethingsmand ” for the Fverdes. 
This seems to me a very typical egg of 7. maritima, as he declared it to be, 
but he did not tell me from whom he had it. | 
[§ 4105. Zhree—Northern Norway, 1861. 
Brought to Knoblock at Muoniovara, on the 8th April, 1862, having of 
course been taken the preceding year, by Nils Andersen Lira, together with 
four Dotterels’ eggs, but no account of either. To Knoblock they were quite 
unknown, naturally enough, though he thought they might perhaps be Wood- 
Sandpipers’, which they clearly are not. I know nothing of this Nils, 
except that in the following year he and two of his family (sons, I imagine) 
took nearly fifty nests of Bufton’s Skua, at least one of which he said he had 
vot on the Qvenanger-fjeld, and I suppose him to have been a Lapp living at 
Kira, which is on the Alten river, whence, according to the custom of his 
people, he wandered in various directions, though as year after year they 
take the same beat, it is very likely that these eggs may have been found 
also in the Qvzenanger district. That these are Purple Sandpiper’s eggs I 
can hardly doubt from their appearance ; but, except the four from the hills 
above Vadso in 1855 (§ 4070), neither Mr. Wolley nor I obtained any others 
in Lapland. ] 
