Shore-bird Shooting 387 



European snipe in color and measure about ij 

 inches long by 1 inch broad. " The nest was a 

 rather deep hollow in the reindeer-moss in an 

 open space on a ridge of ground somewhat drier 

 than the surrounding swampy tundra." As these 

 eggs almost duplicate in size and color the set 

 ascribed to this species procured by Governor 

 Fencker in Greenland, it is probable that the 

 latter was correctly identified. 



SPOON-BILL SANDPIPER 

 (Eurynorkynchus pygmceus) 



Adult male and female in summer — Bill, characteristic, black, longer 

 than the head, flat, dilated considerably at the extremity in a 

 rhomboidal shape ; head, neck, breast, and back, ferruginous, 

 the feathers of the head, back of neck, and back, with dark 

 brown centres ; those of the throat and breast slightly tipped 

 with white ; under parts, from breast down, becoming white ; 

 iris, brown; legs and feet, black. 



Adult male and female in winter — Upper parts, dusky brown, each 

 feather edged with gray ; forehead, face, throat, and under parts, 

 white ; tail, short, consists of twelve feathers, the two central 

 ones longest and darkest. 



Young — Top of head, light gray, with black spots, feathers edged 

 with rusty ; remainder of head, neck, and lower parts, dirty 

 white, tinged with gray ; abdomen, white ; scapulars with black 

 centres, dark gray beneath the surface, tipped with dirty white, 

 margined with rusty ; wing, brownish gray, a white bar across 

 the wing formed by the tips of the greater coverts. 



Measurements — Length, 6 inches; wing, 3.75 inches; tarsus, .90 

 inch ; culmen, .90 inch ; width of bill near tip, .40 inch. 



Eggs — Undescribed . 



Habitat — Breeding range unknown, but supposed to be north- 

 eastern Siberia, where it has been found in summer. Migrates 



