voL. x1] BREEDING-HABITS OF DOTTEREL. 9 
the tundra in the angle of the meeting of the Golchika 
and Yenesei Rivers. This agrees with the statement of 
Heysham that this bird is sociable even in the breeding 
season, and with the experience of Mr. Trevor-Batitye, 
who shot two nesting females within two hundred yards 
of each other. One of the nests was in a marshy spot 
(Fig. 1), but the other, although not more than sixty 
feet above the swamps, was made among an Alpine flora 

Fig.2. DOTTEREL ON ANEST IN THE USUALSITUATION AMONG STONES 
AND ALPINE HERBAGE, 
(Photographed by Miss M. D. Haviland.) 
in soil as dry and stony as the mountain top that it 
resembled in miniature (Fig. 2). . I never saw more than 
one bird near the nest; but the late Major F. W. Proctor, 
who had seen this sjecies breeding in Scotland, told me 
that there, as in the case of most waders, the “ male” 
gives the alarm to the “female” on the nest. 
The call of the Dotterel has been variously rendered. 
Aplin gives it as “ wite wee ; wite wee ; wite wee,’ and 
Naumann as “ diit-diit-diit-diit.” * I have heard a little 
* Hence the German “ Diitchen.”’ 
