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in the air, clapping its wings and keeping them close to its body, or 
fluttering them like a fan. It beats also with them raised high. 
It dashes upon the ground, making a screaming noise, almost like a 
dying Hare. It also hangs motionless in the air overhead, but 
flapping its wings as if it were advancing’. Totanus glareola was 
numerous in the marsh, very clamorous and bold, no doubt having 
young. 
§ 4112. Four.—lIso-uoma, 15 June, 1853. 
These four eggs were found in the marsh above mentioned 
[§ 4111] by Theodore [the Finnish interpreter] and the native, who 
were walking together. The bird left them, but they could not 
describe it. They managed to crack one or two of the eggs, which 
were a good deal sat upon. Looking afterwards for the nest to 
shew it to me, they could not find it. 
§ 4113. Onve.—Iso-uoma, 17 June, 1853. “J. W.” 
This 17th of June I have been again to the great marsh with four 
beaters beside myself and Herr Salomon. We took the likely 
places regularly in line; and I soon saw one of the birds, that I had 
previously had no doubt was Tringa platyrhyncha, fly once or twice 
over the ground, in such a way as to convince me it had a nest. 
Carefully quartering this piece of ground, which might be rather 
more than an acre in size, and examining only the eminences, for 
the rest was under water from the heavy rain of yesterday and this 
morning, I was the first who came upon the nest. It was not at all 
concealed, and was made only of a little grass placed in a hole, 
such as we saw several other unoccupied holes like. The four eggs 
pointed to the centre. I put two Thrush’s [Redwing’s] eggs into 
the nest, having failed in finding the old bird upon it, but I did not 
return to it. 
27 June. I revisited this nest: the two Thrush’s eggs were 
gone. 
[Two of these four eggs were sold at Mr. Stevens’s room, 17 February, 
1854, to Mr. Gardner, and one to Lord Garvagh. The fourth was given to 
my brother and myself, and therefore remains in the collection. | 
1 [All this exactly describes the behaviour of the Short-eared Owl, of which ~ 
Mr. Wolley found a nest a few days later (cf. § 512).) 
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