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pointing out to them the shorter route. Kjgerbolling, 

 the Danish naturalist, who studied the habits of this 

 species in Greenland, says that it lays three or four 

 greenish-yellow eggs, marked with large and small 

 brown spots. 



The broad-billed sandpiper (T. platyrhynca) is not 

 common, although it is also found in Finmark. Pro- 

 fessor Rasch has shot it on Lake Oieren, not far 

 from Christiania, in the beginning of August. It has 

 been seen in the beginning of May near Fogstuen, a 

 station for travellers in the Dovre-fjeld. Some German 

 naturalists class this species with the curlews, and 

 Latham calls it the ' ' little curlew." It has nothing 

 in common with the curlews except the point of the 

 bill. Its eggs have been found in Norway in the mid- 

 dle of June ; they are chocolate-brown in colour. 



Temminck's stint (T. Temminckii) is also found in 

 Finmark, whence it migrates in September. Nilsson 

 says it not only breeds in Lapland, but also in the cen- 

 tral parts of Sweden. It lays four glossy, pale yellow 

 eggs, marked with gray and red-brown spots. 



The little stint (T. minuta). This bird probably 

 breeds in Finmark. It is common near Christiania 

 in spring and autumn, on its way to and return 

 from the north. Nilsson says that large flocks of the 

 species are seen in the south of Sweden in the spring 

 and fall of the year. It keeps company with the dun- 

 lin when migrating. The nest is made on mountain 

 morasses, and Kjaerbolling says that the eggs are of a 

 pale olive-green, marked with minute red-gray, and 

 large brown spots. 



The dunlin (T. variabilis) is common in all parts 

 of Norway. 



