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Although the Sanderling was met with, and specimens procured 
to place the identification of the species beyond doubt, no nest of 
this bird was discovered; and, considering how thoroughly the 
“tundras” visited were explored (in spite of the maddening 
attacks of thousands of mosquitoes), it seems pretty clear that the 
Sanderling makes choice of different ground for the purposes of 
nidification. 
By the way, Mr. Seebohm is somewhat in error when he tells 
us, as he does in a foot-note to p. 229, that it was not until 1876 
that properly-authenticated eggs of the Sanderling were procured. 
He refers, of course, to the eggs found in Grinell Land by Capt. 
Feilden, as described and figured in the Appendix to Nares’ 
‘Voyage to the Polar Sea;’ but he has entirely overlooked the 
fact that long before this—namely, in 1871—Professor Newton, in 
the ‘Proceedings of the Zoological Society’ for that year (p. 56, 
see also p. 546), figured the egg of a Sanderling from a nest found 
by Macfarlane on the Barren grounds of North America, and from 
which nest the female bird had been shot. 
Mr. Seebohm procured a single example of the Curlew Sand- 
piper (p. 233), but could discover no indication of the breeding of 
this species on any part of the ground traversed by him. This is 
one of the birds, and the Knot, Tringa canutus, is another, whose 
nesting haunts still remain undiscovered, and whose eggs still 
remain to be described. 
For the benefit of such of his readers as are not ornithologists, 
we observe that Mr. Seebohm, in the shape of foot-notes, has 
given brief descriptions of the true habitat and geographical range 
of each of the birds met with by him in Siberia—a useful addition 
to his own notes. He is not always quite correct though in his 
statements, as, for instance, when he tells us (p. 103) that the 
Whimbrel is found in winter in Australia, where in reality its 
place is supplied by an allied species, Nwmenius uwropygialis, 
Gould, more properly designated Nuwmenius luzoniensis, Gmelin. 
At p. 122 Mr. Seebohm states that the Ringed Plover, Zgialitis 
hiaticula, ‘‘is confined to the western portion of the Palearctic 
region ;” but he has overlooked the fact of its occurrence in India, 
in the Goorgaon District, as recorded by Mr. Hume, in ‘ Stray 
Feathers’ (vol. viii., pp. 197—201), and the further fact of its 
discovery by Capt. Feilden in the New World—namely, in 
Buchanan Strait, lat. 78° 48’ N.—as reported in the Appendix to 
