350 STERCORARIUS PARASITICUS. 
§ 4700. Forty.—Feroe, 1851. From Sysselmand Winther. 
Out of about two hundred and fifty, of which I received about 
forty. 
§ 4701. Lighteen—Ferée, 1852. From Sysselinand Miiller. 
§ 4702. Four—Vard6, East Finmark, 1859. From 
Lehnsmand Reen. 
§ 4703. Zwo.—Tamsé6, East Finmark, June, 1855. From 
Herr Peder K. Ulich. 
[Sent as Leverjo, a well-known Norsk name of this species. | 
§ 4704. Two. 
§ 4705. One. } Svartnies, East Finmark, 1857. 
§ 4706. Two. 
(‘These five eggs only partially inser-bed by Mr, Wolley, and not entered by 
him in his Bey sash. but from the marks upon them he seems to have taken 
them all himself, and I think he told me that Pastor Sommerfelt was with him 
at the time. The first two are marked “two black birds,” the single egg is 
inscribed “ bird shot,” and the last two “ both with white breasts and rings.” 
The Pastor and Herr Nordvi had doubted the existence of more than one 
species of Skua, which they said was Buffon’s,in the Varanger district, though 
we had some evidence to the contrary in 1855, oat Mr. Woliey proved to them 
that the Arctic Gull was equally plentiful. Svartnzs is on the mainland, 
opposite to Vardé, and the breeding there of this species, as well as the varying 
phase of plumage, which, as he observed, does not depend on age or sex, are 
mentioned by Herr Sommerfelt in his notes on the Birds of East Finmark 
(Gifvers. K. Vet.-Akad. Forhandl. 1861, p. 85).] 
§ 4707. Zwo—Hafaleiti, South-western Iceland, 18 June, 
1858s Se JeavewsAs NN.” 
[We had been to see the spot between the head of the fjord, Osar, and the 
hill, Hafaleiti, where a boy had said he found some eggs looking to us like 
Purple Sandpiper’s (§ 4072), when a Skua flew towards us, and was soon after 
joined by another. It then became evident that they had a nest near at hand ; 
