660 SUPPLEMENT. 
was on a very small mound in a level piece of boggy, though not very wet, ground, 
where a sort of yellowish-brown moss (Camptothecium nitens) grew abundantly, aud 
a few stems of it are enclosed in the parcel. In close proximity to the nest were 
two or three sprouts of willow (Sala lapponica or S. glauca) about a finger long. 
The sitting bird had been flushed from the uest by a Lapp woman driving some 
cows close past it, and I afterwards easily watched the bird to the nest.” He 
continues: “I send a copy of a little article | wrote three years ago in ‘ Naturen’ 
[1903, pp. 106-112], wherein you will find among other things some of the obserya- 
tions I have made on the breeding of Tringa mznuta in Norway, more especially 
concerning the extraordinary tameness exhibited by the sitting bird.... I found 
its nests in Norway in three different years, the last time in 1899; but I am not 
sure that it breeds here every year, for some years I have been unable to discover 
even a single bird, as in 1904, when I spent some ten days at the proper season in 
search of it in two different localities, where on earlier occasions I had found 
several pairs breeding. They are most likely to be met with in years when the 
spring is very late and the snow remains longer than usual.” 
Trinea striata. (Vol. II. p. 229.) 
§ 6067. Two.—Cape Flora, Franz Josef Land, 26 June, 1897. 
Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition, through Mr. Dresser, 1905. 
Scotopax RusticuLta. (Vol. II. p. 271.) 
§ 6068. Three.—Dunipace, Stirlingshire, 9 May, 1905 From Mr... 
Harvie- Brown. 
The bird was flushed from her nest on the 6th of May and deserted it. 
LARUS ROSEUS, MacGillivray. 
§ 6069. Two.—Pokhodskoe, Kolymé Delta, ) 
13 June, 1905. From Mr. S. A. 
Ibis, 1906, pl. xx. figs. 5, 6. ; Buturlin, through 
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§ 6070. Two.—Pokhodskoe, 25 June, 1905. } 
I am indebted to the kindness of Mr. Dresser for these valuable specimens 
(two of which have been figured as above) from Mr. Buturlin, who was so fortunate 
as to find a long-sought breeding-ground of this beautiful species, and published 
(Ibis, 1906, pp. 131-139) a full and interesting account of his discovery. He there 
states that the first bird arrived on the 30th of May, while the river was still frozen 
hard, and several dozens appeared on the following day. ‘They frequented for 
some days a little shallow lake formed by the melting snow running partly off the 
river-ice and partly off the sand of a little island. From the 3rd of June onward 
they became scarce on the river and dispersed over the delta, though the snow was 
still deep in the bushy portions, and the ice had only melted for a fathom or two 
