NUMENIUS. LIMOSA. 39 



3. Faroe Islands, Gth June (H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 

 Haryitt Coll}. 



2. Faroe Islands, 8th June (H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.}. 



3. Faroe Islands, 12th June (H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Haryitt Coll.). 



4. Faroe Islands, 12th June (H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Hart/iit Coll.}. 



4. Faroe Islands, 12th June (H. C. M.: Seebohm Coll. 

 Hargitt Coll). 



2. Faroe Islands, 12th June ( H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.). 



3. Faroe Islands, 12th J une (H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.}. 



3. Faroe Islands, 12th June (H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 

 Hargitt Coll.}. 



3. Faroe Islands, 13th June (H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.}. 



4. Faroe Islands, 14th June (H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.}. 

 4. Faroe Islands, 14th June (H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. . 



Hargitt Coll.). 

 4. Faroe Islands, 15th June (H. C. M.: Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.}. 

 2. Faroe Islands, 16th June (H. C. M. ; Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.}. 

 4. Faroe Islands, 23rd June (H. C M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.}. 

 4. Faroe Islauds, 24th June (H. C. M. : Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.). 



Numenius borealis, Lath. 



Numenius borealis, Neivton, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 56, pi. iv. fig. 1 ; Dresser, 

 Birds Eur. viii. p. 221 (1873) ; Baird, Brewer Ridgw. Water 

 Birds N. Am. i. p. 318 (1884); Seebohm, Brit. Birds, 'iii. p. 104, 

 pi. 33 (1885) ; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 333 (1887) ; id. 

 Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 133, pi. 45. fig. 3 (1896) ; MacFarlane, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. xiv. p. 429 (1891) ; Poynting, Eggs of Brit. Birds, 

 p. 253, pi. 54 (1895-6) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p 368 

 (1896) ; id. Hand-l. i. p. ]58 (1899). 



The two eggs of the Eskimo Whimbrel in the Collection are 

 pyriform and rather narrow in proportion to their length. They 

 are almost gloss-less. The ground-colour is olive-buff, and it is 

 sparingly spotted and blotched with umber-brown and underlying 

 pale purple. The markings are larger and more frequent on the 

 larger half of the egg than elsewhere. Two examples measure 

 respectively : 2 by 1-35 ; 2-25 by 1-5. 



2. Arctic America (Smiths. Inst.}. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Genus LIMOSA, Briss. 



The eggs of the Godwits are pyriform, at times somewhat narrow 

 and lengthened, at. others broad and abruptly pointed. They have 

 a considerable amount of gloss. 



