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' Sanderling. Breeding abundantly on the North Georgian 

 Islands. 



Golden Plover. Very common, North Georgian Islands. 



Ring Dotterel. Common, both places. 



Turnstone. Very common. 



Dunlin. Rare. 



Knot. Breeding in great abundance on the North Georgian 

 Islands. 



Purple Sandpiper. Breeding all along the coast of Davis' 

 Straits and Baffin's Bay, but not met with in the Polar Sea. 



Grey Phalarope. Breeding abundantly on the North Georgian 

 Islands;" and amongst several other species is mentioned that 

 lovely bird the Fork-tailed Gull as occurring on Prince Regent 

 Island, and on three small Islands in Baffin's Bay, in lat. 75 -5. 



Now this seems to me a very satisfactory proof of the Knot's 

 breeding ground being ascertained in America at least. 



I am not aware whether any eggs of the Knot have been 

 brought to England, but I should think it very probable they 

 may have been. Some thirty years ago I was staying at a house 

 in this county, when I was shown a collection of eggs, and there 

 was one amongst them named Knot. The original collector had 

 died, but I enquired about the egg, remarking on its rarity, if 

 authentic. My kind correspondent (also long since dead), a few 

 days afterwards, wrote to me as follows respecting it. 



" The Knot's egg," he says, "he had from a Captain Howard 

 some years ago. He was a great collector of eggs from all parts, 

 and he believes it to be certainly correct, I therefore send you 

 the egg, hoping you will put it into your collection if you think 

 the information worthy of belief." The person referred to was 

 the keeper, and I believe was a clever man, and was much in- 

 terested in birds and eggs, and had helped to form the collection. 

 This egg agrees pretty well with YarrelFs description of what 

 the egg is said to be like. It is about the size of a Eeeve's egg, 

 but is rather broader and not so pyriform, the ground colour being- 

 a very rich pale brown with a pinkish tinge in it, and the spots 

 arc rich brown, with some inclining to lavender colour. Now 



