THs ie Tbs. 
NINTH SERIES. 
No. IV. OCTOBER 1907. 
XXVITI.—On the Eggs of some American Limicole. By the 
Rev. F. C. R. Jourparn, M.A., M.B.O.U. 
(Plate XI.) 
I nave pleasure in offering to ‘ The Ibis’ figures of the eggs of 
three species of North-American Limicole, concerning which 
little has as yet been recorded, although all of them are in 
the “British List” as occasional stragglers to this country. 
1. Tue Soxirary Sanppirer. Totanus solitarius Wils. 
CPT. figs, 1.2) 304s) 
It is unnecessary to repeat the particulars which have 
already been recorded in the pages of ‘The Ibis’ (1905, 
pp- 158-161) and in the ‘ Bulletin of the B. O. C.’ (vol. xix. 
pp. 85-37) concerning the nesting of this bird. Like its 
congeners, the Green and the Wood Sandpiper, this species 
is now known to breed in other birds’ nests. So far as has 
been ascertained. at present, the habit appears to be constant, 
_ for every clutch which has been taken has been found in 
either an old or a new nest of some other species. Among 
these we may mention the American Robin (Turdus migra- 
torius), Brewer’s Blackbird (Scolecophagus cyanocephalus), 
the Cedar Waxwing (Ampelis cedrorum), and the Canada Jay 
(Perisoreus canadensis). As no figuresof these rare eggs have 
hitherto been published, it has been thought advisable to 
illustrate some of the principal varicties. Fig. 1 (Pl. XI.) 
represents an egg in the possession of Mr. Raine, and is 
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