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" This bird breeds in Scona in the bogs and morasses near 

 the coast in considerable numbers ; they breed also on the 

 south-western coast of Norway between Egersund and Sta- 

 vanger, but northward to Drontheim I met with only a few 

 stragglers. They soar during the pairing season in the air 

 like the Tringa platyrhymca, but to no great height, utter- 

 ing a note in some degree like that bird. In September I 

 have seen flocks of them at Gene on the Bothnian Gulf, 

 but have never fallen in with them in the interior, nor met 

 with a single specimen in any part of Lapland." 



These birds go every season to the Faroe Islands, Ice- 

 land, and Greenland. Major Sabine, in his Natural History 

 Appendix to Sir Edward Parry's first voyage, says it is rare 

 on the coast of Davis' Strait and of Baffin's Bay, and in the 

 islands of the Polar Sea. On the second voyage it was 

 found breeding on Melville Peninsula. Sir James Clark 

 Ross, in his Natural History of the last Arctic Voyage, 

 says, " this bird was very abundant during the breeding- 

 season near Felix Harbour, building its nest in the 

 marshes and by the sides of the lakes." 



Sir John Richardson, in his Fauna Boreali Americana, 

 says of the Dunlin, " This bird, which breeds plentifully 

 on the Arctic coasts of America, was killed by us on the 

 Saskatchewan plain on its passage northwards, and in 

 autumn on the shores of Hudson's Bay." This is a well- 

 known species in the United States, and has an extensive 

 southern range in winter according to American ornitho- 

 logists, going to Carolina and Florida, to Jamaica and 

 other islands, to Cayenne, Vera Cruz, and Mexico. 



Eastward of the British Islands the Dunlin is seen in 

 autumn on the shores of the European continent generally. 

 The Zoological Society have received specimens from 

 Tangiers, Dr. Heineken includes it among the Birds of 

 Madeira, and it is said to have been found as far south in 



