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were about ten in the whole! which I could hardly with certainty 
decide whether they were Whimbrels’ or Richardson’s Skuas’, and 
I have no confidence in my reference of them to either one or the 
other species in such case. The Whimbrel is perhaps the most 
common land-bird of Fverée. 
[It seems to me quite impossible to judge, in many cases, whether an egg 
is an. Arctic Gull’s or a Whimbrel’s. Mr. Wolley’s last remark may seem 
somewhat inconsistent with what he wrote in 1849 (§ 4328), but he evidently 
did not regard the Oyster-catcher as a “land-bird.” To the abundance of both 
species in the islands I can myself bear witness (cf. § 3284). | 
§ 4332. One.—Ferde, 1852. From Sysselmand Miller, 
1853. 
One or two more were given to Mr. Salmon. 
§ 4333. One.—Pallas-tunturi, 29 May, 1804. 
From Solomon Hiatalla. In a little marsh up the mountain. 
He was not quite certain about the bird, but believed it to be the 
common Awovi—i. e., Whimbrel. 
§ 4334. Zwo.—Lapland, 1854. 
One of them from Modas-lompalo. 
§ 4335. ight—Kautokeino, 1854. 
Collected and brought to Kaaressuando by one-handed Lassi, 
with a list in which nearly every egg was wrongly named. These 
were called Puna Kuovi, that is Godwit, but most if not all are the 
common Kuovi or Whimbrel. 
* (Herr Winther wrote that he was sending 484 eggs of Tjegva and Spegva 
(Arctic Gull and Whimbrel), but that he had not marked them “ because I am 
not able to distinguish between them. I have bought all the egys, and the people 
of whom I have bought them have brought me many of different kinds together, 
and do not exactly know whether they are Zjegvu or Spegva. I therefore 
believed you to be the best judge of all, and I did not mark the eggs.” Sixteen of 
the above-mentioned twenty have always been kept apart by me, and for variety 
they form a wonderful series. Indeed in variety of colouring Feréese eggs of the 
Whimbrel far excel those from Lapland, as they do on an average in size, so that 
when specimens from the two localities are laid in separate drawers the difference 
is conspicuous.—Ep. } 
