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serrator, L.) sparingly over all. Of course in the spring and autumn 

 we had the scoters, pintail, and some others, on their way to their 

 northern breeding haunts. 



Of the grebes I could never identify more than one species on the 

 Wenern, namely, the great-crested grebe {Podiceps cristatus, Lath.), 

 and this was by no means rare. It is a curious fact that, in such a 

 locality, so admirably suited to the habits of these birds, the coot 

 Fulica atra, L.) is only very rarely killed on the Wenern j and as 

 to the water-hen {GaUinula chloropus, Lath.), it is unknown here. 

 I never myself (nor can I hear of anyone else who has) killed the 

 water-rail {Rallus aqimticus, L.) here 3 but the spotted crake {Gal- 

 I'lnula porzani, Lath.) was common in all the rushy meadows 

 throughout the summer. I once shot a red-necked phalarope 

 (Phalaropus hyperloreus, Lath.) on the banks of the Wenern in 

 (uU summer plumage, but they don't breed here. I have shot 

 Temminck's stint {Tringa Temmmchii, Leisl.), and the greenshank 

 {Totanus glottis, Bechst.) more than once in the summertime, 

 although I never obtained the eggs of either from these parts. The 

 peewit {Vanellus cristatus, Mey.), the golden plover {Charadrius 

 pluvialis, L.), the curlew {Nuvienius arqiiata, L.), and the common 

 snipe {Scolopax gallinago, L.) are all common breeders here 3 but I 

 never yet took the nest of the dunlin {Tringa alpina, L.) As to 

 the great snipe (5. major, Gm.) and the jack snipe {S. gaUimda, 

 L.), although I never took the eggs of either here, I feel pretty con- 

 fident that they both bred somewhere in the neighbourhood, for I 

 have shot the young of both far too small to have travelled down 

 any distance. 



The little ring dotterel {C/iaradrius minor, Mey.) was, in 

 my opinion, more common on the northern banks of the 

 Wenern than its congener the ring dotterel {C. Iiiaticida, L.), 

 although both bred here j but I never detected the Kentish plover 

 {C. Cantianus, Lath.) breeding anywhere in Sweden on the margin 

 of the freshwater lakes, although common on the southern coasts. 

 The common sandpiper {Totanus Jiypoleucus, Tem.), the redshank 

 {1\ calidris, Bechst.), the green sandpiper (7^ ochropus, Tem.), the 



