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generally prefer marshes covered with rather higher and 

 coarser grass than that selected by the Plialarope. The eggs 

 we found after the 22nd were much incubated. 



Little Stint [Tringa minuta). Obtained one specimen 

 with incubation spots on June 20th, it was feeding on a mud- 

 flat along with Ringed Plovers and some of the next species, 



Temminck's Stint [Ti'inga temmincki). Common in the 

 Porsanger. Found several nests with full clutches on one of 

 the islands on June 25th. In each case the male bird was 

 sitting. The colour of the male harmonized much more with 

 the herbage than that of the female. We had visited this 

 island previously on the 17th; but/although we saw some of 

 these birds and searched carefully, no nests were found, 

 therefore most of the eggs must have been laid during the 

 week intervening. The nests were all placed in* short grass 

 about 6 in. high — generally containing some dried grass of 

 last year — on dry ground, not far from the houses, but the 

 positions varied much, some on mounds or sides of mounds, 

 some in hollows, others on leverground. 



- Purple Sandpiper {Tringa striata). One seen on the 

 Porsanger. The owner of the island had fresh-taken eggs. 



Common Sandpiper [Ti'ingoides hypoleuciis) . Seen in 

 Aedfjord, Botnfjord, and the Porsanger. 



Redshank [Tetanus calidris). Generally distributed ; 

 one nest we found was placed in the centre of a patch of 

 dwarf sallow. 



Bar- TAILED GoDwiT [Limosa lapponica). We saw a flock 

 of twelve birds on Storr Tamso ; some were in full breeding- 

 plumage, others in winter, and some in intermediate plumage, 

 from their manner evidently not breeding. 



' Whimbrel [Nimienius phceopus). Found on all suitable 

 localities ; it seemed to prefer the same sort of ground for 

 nesting as that selected by Richardson's Skua. Our atten- 

 tion was drawn to several nests through seeing the Whimbrel 

 dash at a passing Skua. 



