24g LIMICOLA PLATYRHYNCHA. 
§ 4114. Zhree.—Iso-uoma, 17 June, 1853. “J. W.” 
These curious varieties of the egg of Tringa platyrhyncha we found 
the same day as those last mentioned. I shot a bird of that kind 
not more than one hundred yards from where they were. Never- 
theless a bird rose from these eggs which appeared to Theodore to 
be of the same kind as the last he saw—that at the previous nest 
[§ 4112]. The eggs were quite fresh. I saw part of another lying 
in the wet, a foot or two off from them, and it was undoubtedly that 
of Tringa platyrhyncha. <A little bent was used in the make of this 
nest. 
[Mr. Wolley never doubted that these eggs were those of the Broad-billed 
Sandpiper, but among the many obtained by him they remain unique in 
appearance—the drab ground-colour being wholly free from marking. The 
fourth egg of the nest, doubtless that of which he saw the broken remains, 
seems to have been normally coloured. | 
§ 4115. Four.—Karto-uoma, 18 and 29 June, 1853. “Saw 
bird on nest. J. W.” 
This nest was found by Theodore; the bird leaving it. The 
position was in the swampy level part of the bog, now nearly 
overflowed by water, as the nests we found in Iso-uoma. The two 
eggs were freshly laid. The other two were taken on the 29th from 
the same nest, and must therefore have been laid since the 18th, yet 
they seem to have been a good deal sat upon. I sent him to look 
at the nest, thinking it possible there might be two more eggs in it. 
It was composed principally of small twigs, not common for this 
bird, and I think it had been slightly raised since we had seen it last. 
While we were at the nest [the second time} with our weight 
depressing the ground, so as to Jeave the nest itself, on its little 
point, an island in a pool, the little bird was seen walking round and 
coming within a few feet of us, as the cover was not at all thick, 
and we could see it perfectly now stopping to pick a fly, and once 
commencing the chirping noise which it makes in the air. Going 
a yard or two from the nest we watched the little fellow walk round 
and round, and at last run into it; but it came out again almost 
immediately looking about. It presently flew a short distance ; but 
the lads could only make it rise again by throwing handfuls of 
turf at it. 
This same morning we tried a marsh on the Finnish side, where 
