770 The Zoologist— June, 1&G7. 



that answer to Schrader's description. For the present, therefore, 

 C. arenaria should be struck out of the list of the birds of East 

 Finmark. 



50. Machetes pvgnax. — Arrives early in June, but is not very 

 common. I have often had an opportunity of watching the males in 

 the spring through a telescope, at a short distance off, — thirty to fifty 

 ells, — but they never fought. I have certainly seen two males rush at 

 each other with open bills, but the one has then laid down and the 

 other put its bill on its head, neck or back, and in this position they 

 would remain quiet for some time. The females in the meantime 

 walked about quite peaceably. 



51. Totamts fascus. — Is found commonly in Enare, and is not un- 

 common along the Tana River, particularly in its upper valley. It is 

 seen at Nyborg in the autumn. Kjaerbolling describes its egg as 

 shorter, stouter and more reddish brown than the egg of T. calidris: 

 this is, however, wrong. The four eggs I have received from Mr. 

 Wolley are bright grass-green, with larger and smaller brown patches, 

 aud are larger and more elongated than the eggs of T. calidris. 



52. Limosa rufa. — In June, 1857, I saw a flock at the confluence 

 of the Varanger Fjord, and late in July and August I have often seen 

 both this bird and Limosa melanura at Vardo. It is never found 

 breeding here, but is at Muonioniska. Possibly it breeds in the fell 

 mosses of Varanger Naesset, but it is more probable that its breeding 

 places are further to the eastward, and that it only visits East Finmark 

 when migrating. 



53. Scolopax gallinula. — Of this bird I got from Karlebotten, in 

 1857, four eggs, which are larger than the eggs of Tringa alpina, 

 highly polished, gray, with dark brown spots. In June, the same year, 

 I noticed it at Nyborg, and heard its sounding flight, accompanied 

 with the same bleating sound as Scolopax gallinago makes, and from 

 which it has got its Lapp name, " the bleater," and the sound was 

 scarcely much softer. 



54. Phalaropus rufus. — Has been seen several times by Nordvi at 

 Mortensnaes, towards the end of August, in summer plumage, swimming 

 about on the sea near land. At Nyborg it has been shot in winter 

 plumage in October. It has not been observed here during the 

 breeding season. 



55. Fulica air a. — Two specimens of this species were shot at Vardo 

 in October, 1857, both young birds; probably they had strayed there 

 from the eastward. It has been certainly told me that long ago it has 



