eggs of the Dunlin very generally did duty in " British " 

 collections for those of the former bird until the inde- 

 fatigable researches of the late Mr. John Wolley in 

 Lapland taught us the entire difference between the 

 productions of the two species in question, and proved 

 satisfactorily that no British egg of the Jack-Snipe had 

 ever been seen. I have kept a few Dunlins in our 

 aviaries ; but have found that they either refuse to feed, 

 and pine to death in a few days, or feed so ravenously 

 that the same result ensues from the exactly opposite 

 cause — plethora. 



The ordinary note of the Dunlin is a piping whistle ; 

 but I have been assured that in the pairing-season the 

 male " sings on wing like a Lark." I find, however, 

 that my standard authority only credits our bird at 

 that season with the utterance of a prolonged and 

 somewhat monotonous " dwee." 



