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June 3rd-8th and another nest would undoubtedly have been 

 found but for the blunder of one of our assistants. The 

 Presqu'ile de Rennes, which forms the western littoral of 

 Liefde Bay, consists of barren tundra and stone-covered 

 wastes with a few scattered tarns inland, round which we saw 

 Grey Phalaropes, Sanderlings [Crocethia alba) and the Purple 

 Sandpiper [Erolia marUima). No vegetation occurs beyond 

 the two types of dwarf willow (about an inch in height) and 

 saxifrages, Dryas, etc. For the most part the Presqu'ile de 

 Rennes consists of stones. Off the Peninsula lie two or three 

 groups of islands — the Station Islands, the Canards and the 

 Mouettes. On all these islands we found the Turnstone 

 breeding. 



T propose to deal not with each individual site and the 

 behaviour of each pair of birds, but with the various (such 



SKETCH-M.\P 



1. Feilden. 



2. Holboll. 



3. Manniche. 



SHEWING BREEDING RANGE 

 GREY PH,A.LAROPE. 



4. Slater. 7. Naurnann. 



5. Jourdain. 8. Anderson. 



6. Collett. 9. Trevor-Battye. 



Turn stone 

 Grey Phalarope 



TURNSTONE AND 



10. Pophain. Pearson. 



11. Walter. Middendorf. 



12. Witherby. 



as they were) types of site and to make some general remarks 

 on the breeding Turnstones of this region, supporting these 

 by such individual instances as are necessary. 



The first site was on an island and the nest contained three 

 eggs. The island was about a hundred yards long by about 

 fifty broad and was absolutely devoid of cover, save for two 

 large boulders. It was occupied by Arctic Terns {Sterna 

 paradises a) and Grey Phalaropes. As soon as we saw the 

 bird we lay down at one end of the island. The bird flew 

 from one boulder over the nest to the edge of the water 

 beyond it several times uttering the attack note. Then it 

 became silent and gradually ran close to the nest and finally 

 right on to the eggs from which we flushed it. The eggs were 

 some twenty paces from the sea either way and were on 

 the point of hatching. At this nest we never saw both birds, 



