LIMONITES. 53 



small blotches, in others they are huge smears, often confluent, 

 covering a large portion of the shell, and forming a cap at the 

 broad end. The underlying markings are pale grey and incon- 

 spicuous. The eggs measure from 1-08 to 1*18 in length, and from 

 8 to -85 in breadth. 



4. Dolgaia Bay. Wai'gatch Island, H. J. Pearson. Esq. [P.]. 

 N. Russia, 2nd July (H. J. P.). 



3. Dolgaja Bay, 3rd July (H. J. P.). H. J. Pearson, Esq. [P.]. 

 o. Dolgaja Bay, 3rd July (H. J. P.). H. J. Pearson, Esq. [P.]. 



4. Cape Matinsela, Waigatch Island, H. J. Pearson. Esq. [P.]. 



18th July (H. J. P.). 

 4. Dolgoi Island, N. Russia, 20th H. J. Pearson, Esq. [P.]. 



July (H. J. P.). 

 9. Ivoinik on the Petchora River, Seebohm Coll. 



22nd July (H. Seebohm $ J. A. 



Harvie-Brown] . 

 6. Yenesei Valley, lat. 70^ N., July Seebohm Coll. 



(H. Seebohm). 



Limonites minutilla ( F".). 



Tringa minutilla, Newton, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 165, pi. xv. fig. 3 ; Dresser, 



Birds Eur. viii. p. 51 (1872) ; Coues, Birds N.-West, p. 482 (1874) ; 



Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 213, pi. 31 (1885) ; id. Eggs of Brit. 



Birds, p. 149. pi. 44. fig. 8 (1896) ; Pointing, Egos of Brit. Birds, 



p. 155, pi. 34 (1895-6). 

 Actodromas minutilla, Baird, Brewer Sf Ridgw. Water Birds N. Am. i. 



p. 236 (1884). 

 Tringa subminuta minutilla, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriida, p. 439 



(1887). 

 Limonites minutilla, Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 548 (1896) ; 



id. Hand-l. i. p. 163 (1899). 



The eggs of the American Stint are pyriform, and have com- 

 paratively little gloss. They are pale stone-grey, marked with 

 small blotches, spots, and specks of dark brown, yellowish brown, 

 and underlying pale purple. The markings are more numerous and 

 larger at the broad end than elsewhere, and frequently form a 

 small but dense cap. The eggs measure from 1'07 to 1/17 in 

 length, and from *8 to '87 in breadth. 



3. Cambridge Bay, Arctic America Voy. H.M.S. ' Enterprise.' 



(Capt. Collinson). 



2. Labrador (Moschler). Seebohm Coll. 



6. Labrador. Sir H. Peek [P.]. 



4. Sable Island, N. Atlantic, July Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(J. P. Dodd : Henshaiv Coll.). 

 2. Sable Island (J. P. D. : Smiths. Inst.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Limonites temmincki (Leisl.}. 



Tringa temmincki, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. Ixiii. fig. 2, a-c 

 (1845-64 ;i ; Dresser, Birds Eur. viii. p. 45 (1871) ; Seebohm $ 

 Harvie-Brown, Ibis, 1870, p. 308 ; Seebohm, Ibis, 1879, p. 149 ; Legge, 

 Birds CeyL p. 892 (1880) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 217, pi. 31 

 (1885) ; id. Geogr. Distr. Charadriida, p. 434 (1887) ; id. Eggs of 



