PURPLE SANDPIPER, 49 



light green richly spotted with light brown. They 

 are deposited in the nest with the smaller ends inwards. 



PURPLE SANDPIPER. 



SELNINGER SANDPIPER. 

 BLACK SANDPIPER. SEA SANDPIPER. 



PLATE CLXXVIII. FIGURE II. 



Tringa maritima, PENNANT. 



Tringa Lincolnittnsis, PENNANT 



Tringa. nigriians, MONTAGU. 



Tringa striata, FLEMJN" 



TTHE nest of this species is fitted in some hollow 

 in the ground with a little moss or other herbage 

 for a lining. It is built on mountains among small 

 pools of water, in the middle of a clump of grass. 



The eggs are four in number. They are of a 

 pyriform, i.e., pear shape, of a yellowish grey colour, 

 with small irregular spots of pale brown, crowded at the 

 obtuse end and rare at the other. They appear to be 

 laid at the end of June, or beginning of July. 



The figure on the plate is from a specimen for- 

 warded by J. R. De Capel Wise, Esq., of Lincoln 

 College, Oxford. 



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