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from Denmark. Mr. Dann's notes to me are as follow : — 

 " This bird breeds in Scona in the bogs and morasses near 

 the coast in considerable numbers ; they breed also on the 

 south-western coast of Norway between Egersund and Sta- 

 vanger, but northward to Drontheim I met with only a few 

 stragglers. They soar during the pairing season in the air 

 like the Tringa platyrhynca, but to no great height, utter- 

 ing a note in some degree like that bird. In September 

 I have seen flocks of them at Gefle on the Bothnian Gulf, 

 but have never fallen in with them in the interior, nor met 

 with a single specimen in any part of Lapland." 



These birds go every season to the Faroe Islands, Ice- 

 land, and Greenland. Major Sabine, in his Natural History 

 Appendix to Sir Edward Parry''s first voyage, says it is rare 

 on the coast of Davis' Strait and of Baffin''s Bay, and in the 

 islands of the Polar sea. On the second voyage it was found 

 breeding on Melville Peninsula. Captain James Clark Ross, 

 in his Natural History of the last Arctic Voyage, says, " this 

 bird was very abundant during the breeding season near 

 Felix Harbour, building its nest in the marshes and by the 

 sides of the lakes." 



Dr. Richardson, in his Fauna Boreali Americana, says of 

 the Dunlin, " This bird, which breeds plentifully on the Arc- 

 tic coasts of America, was killed by us on the Saskatchewan 

 plain on its passage northwards, and in autumn on the shores 

 of Hudson"'s Bay." This is a well-known species in the 

 United States, and has an extensive southern range in winter 

 according to American ornithologists, going to Carolina and 

 Florida, to Jamaica and other islands, to Cayenne, Vera Cruz, 

 and Mexico. 



Eastward of the British Islands the Dunlin is seen in 

 autumn on the shores of the European Continent generally. 

 The Zoological Society have received specimens from Tan- 

 giers, Dr. Heineken includes it among the Birds of Madeira, 



