3 6 Sweden. 



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 ; and as 

 to the water-hen (Galiinula chloropus, Lath.), it is unknown here. 

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

 water-rail (Rallus aquaticus, L.) here; but the spotted crake (Gal- 

 iinula porxani, 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 

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

 Temminck's stint (Tringa Temminckii, Leisl.), and the greenshank 

 (Totanus glottis, Bechst.) more than once in the summer time, 

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

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

 pluvialis, L.), the curlew (Numenius arquata, L.), and the common 

 snipe (Scolopax gallinago, L.) are all common breeders here ; but I 

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

 the great snipe (S. major, Gm.) and the jack snipe (S. gallinula, 

 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 (Charadrius minor, Mey.) was, in 

 my opinion, more common on the northern banks of the 

 Wenern than its congener the ring dotterel (C. kiaticula, 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 hypoleucus, Tern.), the redshank 



(T. calidris, Bechst.), the green sandpiper (T. ochropus, Tern.), the 



