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Pennant mentions having received the eggs of this bird 

 from Denmark. Mr. Dunn's notes to me are as follow : 

 " 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 platyrhynca, but to no great height, utter- 

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

 have seen flocks of them at Gefle 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. Captain James 

 Clark Boss, 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." 



Dr. 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 Saskat- 

 chewan 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 ornithologists, 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. 



