348 A SPRING AND SUMMER IN LAPLAND. 



notice that in the summer dress the grey plover 

 differs little or nothing from the golden, but the 

 small head will always distinguish the grey ployer 

 at all seasons. 



I never met with the crane (Grus cinerea, 

 Bech.) in this district. 



Both the curlew (Numenius arquata, Lin. ; 

 " stor spof," Sw.) and the whimbrel (N. phceopus, 

 Lath. ; " sma spof," Sw.) are met with here ; but 

 I never saw any other than the whimbrel, and this 

 bird was sparingly distributed over the lower fell 

 tracts. " Gutsch kastaf" is the Lap name for 

 both curlew and whimbrel. I never found more 

 than three eggs in the nest of the whimbrel. ^They 

 breed sparingly on our fells. 



Not a single species of heron or stork appear 

 to come up here to breed. 



That the bar-tailed godwit (Limosa rufa, 

 Briss. ; "rostrod lang nabba") breeds in this 

 neighbourhood is pretty certain, although I never 

 found the nest ; but I fancy that both the godwits, 

 although they may breed here and there in Lap- 

 land, breed principally more to the east. 



Temminck's stint (Tringa TemmincJcii, Leisl. ; 

 "Temminck's strandvipa," Sw. ; " vizardalle," 

 Lap.) was rare in this district, and I only met 

 with two pair. The one I shot by the river-side 

 in the early spring, and the other with their nest 



