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as we did in every other case. The cup was a very flat 

 depression among small stones on a small ridge of dry, red mud. 

 Six other nests were found on islands. One was about thirty 

 yards from the sea on another small island. Another was 

 five yards from the sea on a big island three-quarters of a 

 mile long. Another was ten yards from some shore ice on 

 the west side of this island and another about five yards from 

 ice on the east side, and the last was about a hundred yards 

 from the sea. On another large island I found one pair only 

 one hundred yards from the sea. All these nests were in 



TURNSTONE : MALE ON GUARD. 



[Photographed by Seton Gordon.) 



much the same bare, stony, wind-swept positions, very similar 

 I should imagine to the positions used by the Grey Plover 

 [Sqiiatarola squatarola) and the kind of ground on which 

 Pearson found both the Turnstone and Grey Plover breeding 

 on Kolguev {Ibis, 1896, p. 217). After we had discovered our 

 first nest on the island we were rowed back to the sloop and 

 on from there to the mainland about half a mile distant. 

 One section of the party went further afield to shoot, and 

 Mr. Jourdain and I, after spotting another pair of Turnstones, 

 waited behind to watch them to their nest. We had only 



