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swamps they frequent. There were several small colonies 

 of them in different parts of the extensive swamp at Fogs- 

 tuen ; I procured five specimens there, and migl# have 

 obtained as many more, had I desired it ; I also procured 

 one nest with four eggs in it.'* 



Mr. Wm. Borrer has recorded of one taken on the heach 

 at Shoreham, in Octoljer, 1845, that it was almost in its 

 winter plumage. J. H. Gurney, Esq. has noticed one 

 killed at Breydon in Norfolk, in May, 1836; and Colonel 

 H. M. Drummond, of Megginch Castle, Perthshire, gave 

 me a beautiful specimen obtained by himself at Malta in 

 its perfect summer plumage. Mr. Hewitson has figured 

 the eggs from specimens brought from Sweden by Mr. 

 John Wolley. 



M. Schinz, of Geneva, says, in his Fauna Helvetica, that 

 this Sandpiper has been taken in the vicinity of two or 

 three of the lakes of Switzerland, and that these captures 

 have always occurred in the month of August. M. Tem- 

 minck mentions that this species is found on several of the 

 islands of the Indian Archipelago, at Borneo, Sumatra, and 

 Timor. Mr. Blyth records it as tolerably common on the 

 continent of India, in various states of plumage. 



The adult bird, in the breeding-season, has the beak, 

 which is one inch and one-sixteenth in length, dark brown 

 at the point, inclining to reddish brown at the base ; 

 irides brown ; from the base of the beak to the eye a dark 

 brown streak ; over that and the eye a white streak, with 

 a brown central longitudinal line ; top of the head brown- 

 ish black, slightly varied with greyish white, and tinged 

 with ferruginous ; inter-scapulars nearly black with rufous 

 edges ; scapulars, wing-coverts, lower part of the back, and 

 the tertials, black, the feathers having broad margins of 

 buffy white or rufous ; the primary and secondary quill- 

 feathers black ; the shafts white ; upper tail-coverts black 



