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think I can get the bird.’””. The eggs were accordingly sent for Mr. Wolley to 
Hammerfest, where Mr. Hudleston and I received them, and packed them to 
go to England. They were marked, apparently by Herr Ulich, “ Gjzes 
Boe”; and I am not sure that Mr. Wolley ever set eyes on them, for the box 
which contained them was not sent to Beeston, but remained in wy keeping. 
On examining them soon after his death, their appearance puzzled me, as did 
the name they bore. We had hoped they might be Pomatorhine Skua’s—a 
species which was plentiful off Berlevaag, at no great distance from 'l'amso, 
but the acquisition of its egg put that out of the question, and so the mystery 
continued. Quite recently I found Bishop Gunner, in a note (99) to Leem’s 
‘ Beskrivelse over Finmarkens Lapper’ (p. 249), had given Gaaspou or 
Gaasespou as a Norwegian name of Numenius pheopus. Then the whole 
thing became clear. These eggs are not indeed those of that species, but of 
N. arquata, which Prof. Collett had found breeding in Tamso (Forhandl. 
Vidensk. Selsk. Christiania, 1872, p. 271), and the Ulichs had merely 
misspelt the name—very pardonably, for they had most likely never seen it 
written. | 
[§ 4315. One—From Mr. R. Reynolds, before 1848. | 
[§ 4316. One.—Holland. From Mr. A. Bots, 1851.] 
[§ 4317. Mowr—Banfishire (?). From Mr. T. Edward, 1854. ] 
[§ 4318. Zwo—Dumfriesshire, 1854. From Mr. W. G. 
Johnstone. | 
[§ 4319. One.—Unst, Shetiand, 1854. From Mr. James 
Smith. | 
[§ 4320. Zwo.—Unst, 1855. From Mr. James Smith.] 
[§ 4321. Zhree—Unst, 1856. From Mr. James Smith.] 
(§ 4322. One.—Hornby Moors, Yorkshire, 15 June, 1862. 
From Mr. Newcome. 
Seems to have been sent to Mr. Newcome by Anthony Savage, the Duke of 
Leeds's gamekeeper at Horuby Castle. | 
