LIMICOLA PLATYRHYNCHA. 239 
of grass at the bottom. The bird sometimes flies and sometimes 
runs off her eggs, and if she has sat for a day or two she will come 
back even whilst men are standing all around. The eggs are 
usually very deeply and richly coloured when fresh, but they fade sadly 
soon after they are blown. As Swedish ornithologists consider the 
Broad-billed Sandpiper only in the light of an accidental visitor 
to their country, I suppose its ease grounds to be confined 
to tlis far northern region, 
[The foregoing paragraphs, written at Muoniovara, on Christmas day, 1854, 
by Mr. Wolley for Mr. Hewitson’s use, were by him printed almost wholly, 
though not quite accurately, in the Third Edition of his work. The 
discovery of the nidification of this species is commonly attributed to 
Mr. Dann, who gave full notes of it, together with two eggs (of which more 
presently § 4174), to Mx. Yarrell, by whom the account was published, and an 
ega figured (July, 1841), in the First Edition of his ‘ British Birds’ (ii. 
pp. 639, 640). However, it seems that Mr. Dann’s travelling-companion, 
Herr Lagesen, of Itzehoe in Holstein, must share with him the credit of the 
discovery, which was made near Fogstuen, on the Dovrefjeld, in June, 1838, 
and the details being communicated by him to the elder Reinhardt, were by 
the latter published in the ‘ Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift’ for 1839 (ii. p. 482 ; 
translation ‘Isis,’ 1841, pp. 416, 417). In a previous journey, in 1835, 
Herr Lagesen had been struck by the promising appearance of the wide, watery 
moor stretching eastward from Fogstuen, and then only refrained from 
exploring it through the tales of the neighbours as to its difliculties and 
dangers. On revisiting the district three years later he wandered over the 
moor, quite alone, he says, and was rewarded for his trouble by meeting with 
this species, hitherto thought so rare, in considerable numbers. He shot 
twenty-six of the birds, and found several nests, containing two or three eggs 
each ; but he described them as being in colour like those of Vringa alpina, 
which shews that he was not much of an oologist. He, however, rightly 
remarked on the resemblance in habits and flight which Z. platyrhyncha 
bears to the Jack Snipe. He also mentions that Mr. Dann had found the 
Broad-billed Sandpiper in the north of Sweden, but not its nest. On this 
last point he must have been misinformed, for Mr. Dann says that he -‘ found 
eggs not sat upon on the 24th of June,” in Lappmark, beside having “ procured 
one nest with four eges in it” near Fogstuen, where he also shot five birds, 
and might have killed as many more had he wished it (cf. Yarrell, ué supra). } 
§ 4111. Four Se -uoma, 15,17, and 27 June, 1853. “ Bird 
shot. “7Jav 
[16 June, 1853.] These two eggs were in a nest which we found 
yesterday in Iso-uoma (the great marsh) at Cifvre Muonioniska on 
the Swedish side. The boy Ludwig saw the bird leave it, and it was 
