434 ICE-BOUND ON KOLGUEV 
probably those which have been lying on the feet. But they are birds 
which fly straight off the nest with considerable flurry, whereas the 
waders step off quietly.’ By the end of July there were great numbers 
of these birds swimming on the sea in lots that varied from eight to 
twenty. 
Tringa alpina LINN. Dunlin. 
Pestrosoboy-pessotchnik (R.). Ya-t-bud-dy (S.). 
The dunlin was generally distributed. They were in pairs on 
June 16, but not yet nesting. One bird obtained on the date con- 
tained a half-formed egg. ‘They were occupied in feeding and in 
drumming like snipe, but with a more metallic sound (like a pea in a 
tin whistle) evidently made by the voice.’ On July 6 I took four eggs 
‘hopelessly incubated.’ On July 9 I found young ones. Hitherto 
these birds (which principally affected those districts where the peat was 
hummocky) had been seen in pairs; now the males (?) began to get 
together in lots of a dozen and more. And from July 11 till end of 
August there were immense flocks on the mud-flats of the eastern 
coast. On August 31 these birds were flying south. 
As in the case of the ringed-plover, the dunlin of Kolguev was the 
smaller form. 
T. minuta LEISLER. Little Stint. 
The little stint was by far the most abundant wader on the island, 
and next numerically was the dunlin. On June 16 they were in small 
parties by the Kriva, chasing one another about, and none appeared 
to be nesting. On July 27 we found a nest with four eggs. It was 
a cup in the peat half filled with dead leaves of creeping birch only. 
In the many nests I examined there were always dead leaves in the 
bottom of a cup—leaves generally of the creeping birch (detu/a nana) 
or, according to the surroundings, of vacciniéum. Seldom had any 
other material been used. But a nest found on July 9 was ‘a deep 
cup lined with dead birch leaves and a little dead grass.’ We never 
in any instance saw more than one bird at the nest, or with the young. 
Out of seven birds secured under these circumstances, five were females, 
