240 LIMICOLA PLATYRHYNCHA. 
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afterwards pointed out to me, there being then only one egg, which 
several hours later I exchanged for a Tras?’s [Redwing], and in the 
afternoon of the same day I found a second egg laid to the Trast?’s. 
I could not get a sight of the bird. Ludwig said it ran from the 
nest, but there was scarcely any cover near. The eggs were on 
a little knob, projecting from the bog, a little grass and so forth 
growing upon it; but there was scarcely anything added to form a 
nest. Two hundred yards off I saw a pair of Totanus {glareola] 
anxiously flying near me, and one sat piping on the top of a Scotch 
fir, close to where the young Cranes [$ 3176] had been; and this 
was the most common species of Wader in the marsh, but there was 
a colony of Tringa platyrhyncha im another part of it. We also saw 
a Snipe or two, one Totanus fuscus, and possibly another species 
of Wader. 
[17 June.] This is a third egg out of the nest above mentioned. 
Again today I failed in seeing the bird upon the nest, though it was 
raining heavily. The Redwing’s egg still remained in it. 
[27 June.] This from the nest in Iso-uoma which I have already 
robbed three times. Ludwig found it again accidentally as I was on 
my way toit. The bird flew off, and was again on the nest when I 
returned in half an hour from our dinner-rock. It flew a yard or 
two, and then settled and ran among the Equisetum and short sedge. 
I fired where I guessed it was, and it got up with a broken leg, but 
settled again a few yards further on, and I shot it as it rose for the 
third time. The nest seemed to me rather fuller than I before 
described it, made of a few short bits of dried grass, and old dwarf 
birch leaves. The Redwing’s egg was still in the nest, and I find a 
large young one inside it, whether so when put into the nest I 
cannot say. The Sandpiper’s egg has also a young one forming in 
it. It was not laid ten days ago. Today I see only three or four 
Broad-billed Sandpipers, and, I think, only one twittering in the 
air, in that subdued way which is characteristic of the bird. I see 
several Jack Snipes, making that galloping or cantering noise, which 
I have before observed and likened to hammering [ef. infra, pp. 253, 
254]. Also some full Snipes—or at least bleating and clicking birds. 
I fire at a Hen-Harrier, of which I see three’, in the course of the 
day here and at Nederbyn [the lower village]. Also I knock a 
feather out of an Owl, which has young somewhere near. It drops 
1 {It was not till 1857 that Mr. Wolley obtained a nest of this species in 
Lapland (cf. § 453), the only one he procured there ; but I think he made no 
particular effort to get any.—Ep. } 
