39 [Vol. xxxvi. 



a communication dated Mar. 14tb, 1903, in which he says : 

 'I had a set of three Sanderliugs myself some years ago/ 



" The only eggs with which these might possibly be 

 confused by an unpractised eye are those of the Dunlin. 

 Mr. Plumb has handled many clutches of this species from 

 Iceland, but he says that he never saw any like these. 

 I have myself very carefully compared them with my own 

 series of 30 clutches, and I can say without the slightest 

 hesitation that they are certainly not Dunlin^s. I am also 

 showing them this evening in a drawer with sixteen clutches 

 of Dunlins^ eggs, a series which embraces the three distinct 

 forms and every variety to which these eggs are subject, 

 I have also carefully compared them with the four specimens 

 in the National Museum, They are exactly the same in 

 every way as three of them, one or two of which are from 

 Iceland and about which there is apparently some doubt; 

 and they also compare favourably with tre well-authenticated 

 eggs figured by Dresser in his 'Eggs of the Birds of Europe' 

 (plate 84). In my opinion, my eggs finally identify those 

 in the Museum from Iceland and vice versa, and should, I 

 think, finally settle the question as to whether the Sanderling 

 breeds in Iceland. There are, I find, many authorities who 

 are of the opinion that they do so. I also believe there are 

 •clutches from Iceland in Continental collections. 



'■'Description. Ground-colour greenish yellow. Surface- 

 anarkings pale vandyke-brown. Underlying markings few, 

 inconspicuous, pale greyish brown. Size of markings 

 small, evenly distributed, slightly heavier at the large ends, 

 slight scrolls of black-brown on the extreme large ends (one 

 of the characteristics of the Sanderling). Shape sharply 

 pyriform. 



" Weight : (1) 0-496 g., (2) 0-475 g., (3) 0-482 g. Average, 

 3. eggs, 0-484 grs.'-' 



Mr. Ogilvie-Grant remarked that in the British Museum 

 Collection there were four single eggs, said to be those of 

 the Sanderling. Of these one only was authentic, that 

 taken by Col. H, W. Feildcu on Grinnell Land, lat. 82° 



