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Society for 1863,* but I would strongly recommend 

 its perusal to all who are interested in the history 

 of this particular species. From the " Naumannia" 

 for 1851 and 1852, he cites one or two instances of 

 the discovery of the nesting of this sandpiper upon 

 trees, on the authority of Herr Passler and Baron 

 von Homeyer, the latter stating that during his stay 

 at Haff he had seen many nesting places, which 

 were on the borders of the alder- wastes "in the 

 middle of the forest where the trees stand upon hil- 

 locks." Again from the "Journal fur Ornithologie " 

 for 1855, we have the evidence of Herr Wiese, who, 

 writing on the ornithology of Pomerania, especially 

 in the district of Coslin, admits his former disbelief 

 in the statement of an old sportsman, that Totanus 

 ochropus laid in old thrushes' nests, nor was he at 

 all convinced until some years after, in 1845, when 

 " he obtained from the same man four fine eggs of a 

 bird of this species, which for some years had been 

 wont to nestle in an old beech tree." His scepticism 

 however, vanished altogether in the following spring, 

 when he himself found a nest of the bird on a pine 

 which had a fork about five and twenty or thirty feet 

 high, wherein he discovered "four eggs on a simple 

 bed of moss." In the spring of 1853 he also took four 

 eggs, and in 1854 " found a nest placed in the old nest 

 of a song-thrush, out of which the shed buds of the 

 beech had not so much as been removed." Again in 

 the "Naumannia" for 1856 and 1857, Dr. Altum 

 describes the annual nesting-places of this species as 

 misseltoe-thrushes' nests, "often some hundred yards 

 distant from the nearest pool, and their height fifteen 

 feet or more from the ground;" and in the same dis- 

 trict, on the 6th of May, 1855, Herr W. Hintz found 



* Vide also the "Zoologist" for 1864, p. 9115. 

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