380 TEN YEAES IN SWEDEN. 



but is a much rarer bird there. I fancy many of the rarer 

 Scandinavian waders and water fowl breed more to the east. 



204. T. TEMMINCKII, Leisl. Temmincks Strandvipa. Tem- 



mincFs Stint. D. F. 



Yery much resembles the last in size and propor- 

 tions, but the side feathers of the tail are all equal, the 

 outer ones white, and the first wing feather alone has 

 a white shaft, the rest are all brown. The colour is 

 darker ; back blacker, with broad rusty yellow spots, 

 the breast rusty grey, spotted black. In the winter 

 the colours are all greyer. 



Is much commoner than the last in Scandinavia. Eggs 

 four, very pyriform, chocolate brown, covered with a deeper 

 shade of small fine spots all over. 



I have taken the nest in Lapland, and as I have shot 

 the old bird in June in Wermland, I have every reason to 

 believe that it also breeds there. 



(b) . All the tail feathers of an equal length, beak straight, 

 a little longer than tarsus. 



205. T. ISLANDICA, L. Islands Strandvipa. The Knot. D.F. 



Length 10 in., about the size of the missel thrush ; 

 beak If in. ; tail, which is always grey, 2f in. Sum- 

 mer dress : black above, with rusty yellow spots; 

 under parts rusty brown, nearly rusty yellow; wing 

 feathers always black, with white shafts. Winter dress : 

 ash grey above, with brown feather shafts and black 

 transverse spots ; under parts white-grey, with a faint 

 rusty tint on the front of the throat, breast and sides ; 

 beak and legs black-green ; iris brown. The young 

 bird is more brown-grey ; sides of the breast and belly 

 transversely streaked with small brown streaks, upper 

 tail coverts white, with black wavy bands. In the old 

 birds they are rusty yellow, with black bands. 

 Is only seen in the south during the periods of migra- 

 tion. I could never hear of it with certainty breeding 



