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f^6* TURNSTONE. 



This very handsomely plumaged bird inhabits the countries 

 bordering on the Baltic, as also Greenland and other localities far to 

 the north. Mr. Hewitson gives a most interesting account of his 

 discovery of its nest in Norway: — ''We had visited numerous 

 islands with little encouragement, and were about to land upon a flat 

 rock, when our attention was attracted by the singular cry of a 

 Turnstone. We remained in the boat a short time until we had 

 watched it behind a tuft of grass, near which, after a minute search, 

 we succeeded in finding the nest. It was placed against a ledge of 

 the rock, and consisted of nothing more than the dropping leaves of 

 the Juniper bush, under a creeping branch of which the eggs, four 

 in number, were snugly concealed and sheltered." Several other 

 nests were also found in the course of further researches, which, 

 however, were required to be both close and systematic. The eggs 

 are of an olive-green colour, spotted and streaked with different 

 shades of red-brown, and all having a beautiful tint of purple or 

 crimson, seen in few other eggs." 



/^ - SANDERLING. 



It breeds in Greenland, Labrador and other Arctic countries'. It 

 makes its nest on marshy grounds, of grass, and lays four "dusky- 

 coloured eggs, spotted with black." But little seems to be known 

 of either the nidification or the eggs of this species, as no figure is 

 given by either Mr. Hewitson or in the Rev. O. Morris's book. 



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HOOPER. 



Occasionally met with during the breeding season in Iceland, and 

 more commonly in Lapland. They are described as inhabiting the 

 most remote and inaccessible lakes and morasses in forest districts. 



