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we saw Greenshank, Whimbrel, Totanus fuscus, T. glareola, Reeve, 
Broad-billed Sandpiper, but all seemed to have young. I found a 
Fieldfare which was just old enough to fly, and in the wood I shot 
a Picus tridactylus. I shot a Curlew’, which we ate for dinner 
today (80 June), with a hen Dal-Ripa [| Willow-Grouse]| and two 
Reeves. The Dal-Ripa cock I had shot two days before at Karto- 
uoma, and the same day I found a brood attended by both birds, 
which of course I spared ; but meat is very rare here. 
§ 4116. One.—Karto-uoma, 18 June, 1853. 
Found by Ludwig on the bird leaving the nest, the position of 
which was more elevated than usual. The eggs were some days sat 
upon. ‘The birds were flying overhead. I shot one, which certainly 
had a nest, a few hundred yards from this spot. Ludwig saw that 
the bird [which left the nest] was Tringa platyrhyncha. 
[Of the four eggs which this nest contained, one was sold at Mr. Stevens's, 
17 February, 1854, to Mr. Burney. That which is now in the collection was 
given to my brother and myself. I know not what became of the remaining 
two. | 
411.7. Four. ‘ 
S Karto-uoma, 28 June, 1853. ‘Bird shot. 
§ 4118. Four. ey: 
On the 28th of June, with a party consisting of Herr Salomon, 
Ludwig, Theodore, two men and two boys, I went to Karto-uoma, 
and beating the likely parts pretty closely, we found two nests of 
Tringa platyrhyncha and three of Scolopax gallinula [§§ 4180-4182} 
—all five with four eggs each. We found a young Brushane [Ruff } 
which could nearly fly, the old bird flying about with a low “ bark ”’ 
like that of the Great Black-backed Gull, very much subdued. 
Totanus glareola was very clamorous, no doubt with young, also 
in a corner of the marsh several pairs of Totanus fuscus, exceedingly 
noisy, and dashing at our faces—a few Curlews* in the same part. 
These were all the marsh-birds I saw; but when I was not with the 
1 (It must have been by inadvertence that Mr. Wolley here wrote Curlew for 
Whimbrel. In the very last of his Sale-Catalogues (1858-9) he stated of the 
latter :—‘‘ Replaces the Curlew entirely in those parts of Lapland with which I 
am acquainted,”—Ep. | 
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