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Mr. Macfaiiane says that the nest he took was made of " hay and decayed leaves." As above 

 stated, Dr. Bessels obtained the young in down on the U.S. Arctic expedition ; and Captain 

 Feilden has also brought back the eggs and the young of the Sanderling, obtained by him on 

 the expedition made by the 'Alert' and ' Discovery,' and informs me that he found the nest, 

 containing two eggs, on the 24th June 1876, in lat. 82° 33' N., and the male bird was sitting on 

 them. The nest was placed on a gravel ridge, bare of snow, at an elevation of about 1000 feet, 

 and was a slight depression in the centre of a recumbent plant of Salix arctica. These eggs, 

 which I have seen, may best be described by comparing them to miniature Curlew's eggs of a pale 

 colour. In size they are about equal to those of the Wood-Sandpiper. 



The specimens figured are, on the one Plate, the adult in winter plumage in the back- 

 ground, and in summer dress in the foreground, and, on the second Plate, the young in half 

 down and the immature bird in its first autumn dress ; and they are those above described. 



In the preparation of the above article I have examined the following specimens : — 



E Mus. H. E. Dresser. 



a, $ ad. Norfolk coast, b, d 1 , c, ? . Pagham, Sussex, May 15th, 1872 {A. Grant) . d. Hants, April 1872 

 {Baron A. von Hiigel). e, juv. Sussex, July 1870 (R. B. Sharpe). f. Fyen, Denmark (A. Benzon). 

 g,6. Gwader, Baluchistan, January 22nd, 1872 {TV. T. Blanford). h, juv. Bay of Fundy, 1864 

 {G. Thomas), i, k, 1. New- Jersey coast {J. Krider). rn. Fort Macon, N. Carolina, September 1864 

 {A. C. Beaks), n. Sambo, October 28th, 1867 {H. Whitehj). 



E Mus. H. Seebohm. 

 a, $ . Golaievskai Isles, Petchora, North Russia, July 14th, 1875 {H. &.). 



