iO MAB8E SAFDPIPEIt. 



observed tolerably common in winter near the Atbara, and on the 

 lower Blue and White Niles, especially however in the morasses of 

 Eastern Kordofan. Jesse obtained it in March at Zulu, on the Red 

 Sea." 



From " Naumannia" for 1850, part 2, page 8, I copy the follow- 

 ing remarks by Dr. J. F. Naumann: — "It is seen rarely in Anhalt. 

 It has become more and more rare during the last ten years. 

 Sometimes it has been taken by my brother on the river Wulfen. 

 Once he shot the female, and in 1835 a pair brought out young ones 

 in that locality. They appeared on the shallow water which remained 

 on the morasses after the dry summer. He killed one on the 26th. 

 of June of that year. It was only, however, just fledged, which 

 induced him to spare the others. The brood consisted of four young 

 ones. This is the only example known to me of the appearance of 

 this rare bird in Anhalt. It belongs to the south of Europe, but 

 does not appear plentiful anywhere. It is not common even in Hun- 

 gary, and in my journey through that interesting ornithological 

 country, I only saw two small flocks. It comes thence solitarily to 

 the south of Germany, but very seldom in the central part, and still 

 more rarely to us in Anhalt." 



In the same journal for 1852, p. 82, there is an interesting 

 account of the nidification of this bird, by Baldamus, from which I 

 take the following : — " T stagnatilis is not common in Hungary, and 

 it is very wild. I saw a flight of about twenty the middle of June, 

 and I killed three after many shots. This bird breeds in the middle 

 and northern parts of Hungary. The ranger Knotz, who knew 

 these 'water-runners' very well, assured me of this, and it is placed 

 beyond all doubt by the observations of my young frifend, Pelenyi, 

 by whom many nests with eggs were found, and who has some 

 excellent observations about this species in his earlier monograph 

 upon Hungarian birds. I found eggs exactly like them in the White 

 Morass, but as I cannot speak with certainty myself, I merely remark 

 that the eggs resemble those of T. calidris and T. glareola in form, 

 colour, and characteristic markings, yet they are smaller than those 

 of T. glareola." 



I copy the following from an excellent and exhaustive paper on this 

 bird in the "Field" of November 21st., 1874, by Mr. Harting:— "In 

 appearance the Marsh Sandpiper resembles a miniature Greenshank, 

 but difiers from it in having proportionately a more slender bill, 

 awl-shaped, and not recurved at the extremity, and in having the 

 upper portions of the plumage and breast more deflnitely and clearly 

 spotted with black in summer, and the back more uniformly grey iu 



