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



Hargitt Coll). 

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



Hargitt Coll.). 

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



Hargitt Coll). 



3. Faroe Islands, 19th June (H. C. M. Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll). 



4. Faroe Islands, 20th June (H. C. M. Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll.). 



3. Faroe Islands, 24th June (H. C. M. Seebohm Coll. 



Hargitt Coll). 



4. Faroe Islands, 16th June (H. C. M.). Seebohm Coll. 

 4. Faroe Islands (H. C. M.). Seebohm Coll. 



3. Advent Bay, Spitsbergen, 19th June. A. Trevor Battye, Esq. [P.]. 



Arquatella couesi, Ridgw. 

 (Plate II. fig. 10.) 



Arquatella couesi, Baird, Brewer Sf Ridgw. Water Birds N. Am. i. 



p. 221 (1884) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 583 (1896) ; 



id. Hand-l i. p. 164 (1899). 



Tringa couesi, Nelson, Report Nat. Hist. Alaska, p. 103 (1887). 

 Tringa maritima couesi, Seebohm, Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 430 



(1887). 



The eggs of the Aleutian Sandpiper in the Collection are pyri- 

 form and possess but little gloss. They are very uniform, being 

 of a pale olive-buff, densely marked, especially on the broader half, 

 with spots, streaks, and blotches of umber-brown, and some indis- 

 tinct pale underlying grey. The markings at the broad end are 

 confluent, and form a dense cap. These eggs cannot be exactly 

 matched by any of those of A. maritima in- the Collection, but they 

 are of the same general character. They measure from 1*4 to 1-51 

 in length, and from -95 to 1 in breadth. 



1. North America. Old Collection. 



4. St. Michael's, Alaska, 29th May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(E. W. Nelson). 



Genus TRINGA, Linn. 

 Tringa canutus (Linn.). 



Tringa canutus, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. Ixi. fig. 3, a-d (1845-54) ; 

 Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 71. fig. 6 (1855-63) ; Dresser, Birds 

 Eur. viii. p. 77 (1877) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, iii. p. 174 (1885) ; id. 

 Geogr. Distr. Charadriidce, p. 422 (1887) ; id. Eggs of Brit. Birds, 

 p. 144, pi. 43. fig. 10 (1896) : Raine, Bird-Nesting N. W. Canada, 

 p. 188, pi. iii. figs. 1, 2 ; Poynting, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 171 

 (1895-6) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds B. M. xxiv. p. 593 (1896) ; id. 

 Hand-l i. p. 164 (1899). 



The history of the single egg of the Knot contained in the Collec- 

 tion has already been fully given by the late Mr. Seebohm in the 



