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connection, for the subject has already been discussed under 

 Gallinago sp. inc. and Tringa canutus. 



The chicks of the Purple Sandpiper obtained by Mr Bruce 

 were captured on the 4th and the 27th of July respectively. 

 The first caught of these little birds appears to be only a day 

 or two old ; while the last obtained, though a mere chick, is 

 clad partly in down and partly in sprouting feathers, and 

 already shows the purple gloss on its dorsal plumage, from 

 which this species takes its popular name. 



[I saw a number of Purple Sandpipers during July, 

 August, and September 1896 ; and Mr Wilton saw the first 

 for the year on the 29th of May. On the 5th of June one 

 came on the snow right up to the window-pane at Elmwood. 

 Late in June a nest with eggs was found, and in July I 

 captured two young ones. The first caught was with its 

 parent, which tried to lure me away ; the older bird was one 

 of four, also accompanied by the mother. — W. S. B.] 



11. Calidris arenaria (Linn.). 



Neale, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1882, pp. 653, 654. 



Dr Neale includes this species in his list of birds observed 

 during Mr Leigh Smith's second expedition ; and he tells 

 us that on the low lands [at Cape Flora] the Snow-Bunting 

 and the Sanderling were seen, but no nests were found. 



The Sanderling does not appear to have come under the 

 notice of the other explorers who have visited Franz Josef 

 Land, and its occurrence there is doubtful. It has been 

 recorded for Waigats by Heuglin (" Reisen nach dem Nord- 

 polarmeer," dritter Theil, S. 118), but there is no record of 

 its occurrence in Novaya Zemlya. It occurs in Spitzbergen 

 in small numbers on migration, but does not breed there. 



12. * Sterna macrura, Naum. 



Payer, o/). dt., ii. p. 91 ; Neale, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1882, p. 654; Nanseu, 

 o'p. cit., ii. p. 295. 



Mr Bruce has adults, male and female, of the Arctic Tern, 

 shot at Cape Flora, out of a party of four which appeared 

 there on the 24th of June 1897. 



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