976 LIMOSA LAPPONICA. 
of British, not to say Norfolk, origin. They are evidently old specimens, and 
in bad condition from, apparently, having been gummed to tablets. When a 
lad he lived with his father, who was much attached to Natural History, from 
1808 to 1818, at Halvergate, whose marshes extending to Breydon Water 
formed pert of the district where the species used to breed in plenty (cf Trans. 
Norf, & Norw. Nat. Soc. iv. p. 84).] 
LIMOSA LAPPONICA (Linneus). 
BAR-TAILED GODWIT. 
Of the Bar-tailed Godwit I left with Mr. Alfred Newton some eggs 
for you to figure if you please. I did not get the bird with them, 
but I had a long talk with the [finder] ..... It is known to the 
Tinns hereabouts by a name [Puna Kuovi] corresponding to the 
English words Red Curlew, but it is far from common; I have not found 
the Black-tailed Godwit at all. On comparing my eggs with some 
in Mr. Tristram’s Collection ..... but which also wanted con- 
firmation, I found that they agreed perfectly. The Bar-tailed 
Godwit breeds in marshes, chiefly in the neighbourhood of moun- 
tains, not at all about Muonioniska. Like most other birds, it 
came in smaller numbers than usual this year. It gets warily from 
its nest, which is therefore difficult to find. My eggs are from Rowa 
near Kittila in Finland. 
[The above passage was written to Mr. Hewitson (who, as stated below, 
figured two of the eggs) from Muoniovara on the 17th of November, 1854, 
and thus expresses Mr. Wolley’s knowledge of the nesting of the birds up to 
that time only. It was not until four years later, after he had left Lapland, 
that his collectors obtained for him another nest. This, containing three 
eggs, was found by some of the Salmojiirvi people in Lalva-uoma, on the 
29th of June, 1858. They saw the bird, which they called Puna Kuovt, 
des¢ribing it as red on the breast and belly, and tried to snare it, but failed. 
“ There can be little doubt,” Mr. Wolley wrote, ‘‘ that these are ees of Limosa 
rufa, Bar-tailed Godwit, for which I had made frequent enquiries of the 
Salmojiirvi lads, and the ‘ Puna Kuovi’ as well as its breeding-place was well 
known to them—this very marsh Lalva-uoma was often mentioned.” One of 
the eggs was bought at Mr. Stevens’s, 8 March, 1859, for Sir W. Milner; the 
other two were sold, at the same place, 51 May, 1860, to Messrs. Simpson 
(Hudleston) and Powys (Lord Lilford). 
Mr. Wolley was never in the way of seeing this bird actually breeding, 
though he met with it on several occasions at various places when, apparently, 
on pessage. He never found any trace of the Black-tailed Godwit in 
F.apland, and it now seems almost certain that the Bar-tailed species does not 
breed so far westward as the yalley of the Muonio, or anywhere in Norway. } 
