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Yet I succeeded by and by in meeting with the birds, the com- 

 plete protective likeness and circumspect behaviour of which often 

 surprised me, but only by the most careful examinations of such 

 places, which I from experience judged to be suitable nesting-places. 

 In the extensive moor- and marsh-stretches west of Stormkap are 

 many smaller stony and clayey parts lying scattered like a sort of 

 islands. 



As these "stone-isles" are most restricted in size I could with- 

 out special difficulty realize the existence of the birds here, and 



Fig. 6. Typical Sanderlings Nest. 



I found several nesting Sanderlings on such places. The pro- 

 blem was decidedly more difficult to me, when the birds had their 

 homes on the extensive table-lands farther inland ; here it will de- 

 pend on luck to meet with a couple of nesting Sanderlings. 



The laying began about June 20"^. The first nest found con- 

 taining eggs dates from June 28'''; these had, however, already been 

 brooded for some days. The clutch of eggs latest found dates from 

 July 15*'*; the eggs in this nest were very much incubated. The 

 Sanderling places its nest on the before mentioned dry clay-mixed 

 stony plains sparsely covered with Salix arctica, Dryas octopetala, 

 Saxifraya oppositifolia and a few other scattered low growths. 



