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[§ 4287. One.—Cambridgeshire (?), 1847. From Mr. Salvin, 
1856. 
This egg was given to us by Mr. Salvin, who had it from a member of his own 
College (Trinity Hall), Mr. Joshua King, as having been bought by the latter 
in 1847 in the Cambridge market-place of a countryman, who had procured it 
in the Fens, and had also with him a young Short-eared Owl alive. Mr. King 
fully believed the man’s story, as I was assured by Mr. Salvin, and though 
undoubtedly Godwits had given up the practise of breeding in the Fens before 
1847, yet they occurred in some numbers every spring, and it is quite possible 
that eggs were occasionally dropped. | 
[§ 4288. Zwo.— Reedham, 1857.” From Mr. E. S. Preston’s 
Sale, 1858. 
These, with one other, formed lot 95 at Mr. Preston’s sale at Mr. Stevens’s 
room, 23 March, 1858, when they were bought for Mr. Braikenridge, who 
kindly allowed me to become possessed of two of them. Mr. Preston expressed 
himself very confidently in their having been taken in Norfolk so late as 1857. ] 
[§ 4289. Onve.—< South Russia.” From Herr A. Heinke, of 
Kamuschin, through Dr. Albert Gtinther, 1863. | 
[§ 4290. Four.—Holland, 1860. From Mr. J. Baker. 
A complete nestful. } 
P4291, Three. 
Holland, 1876. From Mr. J. Baker. 
[§ 4292. Three. | 
Both nests taken by Mr. Baker himself. ] 
[§ 4293. Zwo.—lIceland, 1872. From Mr. Robert Gray, 1885. 
Mr. Gray wrote that he received these unblown from Mr. Jon Aynasson, of 
Reykjavik, having been brought thence by Mr. A. J. Symington, who delivered 
the package containing them unopened. Mr. Gray did not include them in his 
exhibition of Icelandic birds’ eggs to the Glasgow Natural History Society in 
February, 1872, as stated in its ‘ Proceedings’ (ii. part 2, p. 184). | 
[§ 4294. Zwo.—Norfolk? From the late Mr. Scales’s Col- 
lection, 1885. 
These two eggs, each inscribed by Mr. Scales “ Red Godwit,” are most likely 
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