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this bird was in the collection of Twizell. The second bird was taken at Prestwich Car, in 1830, 

 and is now in the Newcastle Museum ; and the third was in the possession of the late Mr. Edward 

 Blackhouse, and was shot at the Whit-Mare Pool, in the county of Durham. In my journal 

 there are nine entries of the occurrence of this species ; of these one was at Gosforth, all the rest 

 at Prestwich Car. At the latter place I took its nest and eggs on the 3rd of June, 1853, when 

 my companion shot the adult male, and thus the eggs were fully authenticated. I believe this 

 is the only time the nest has been taken in England. On the 19th of June, 1845, a mature bird 

 was shot by the late Mr. Richard Reay, at Prestwich Car. There can be little doubt that this 

 was also breeding there. My friend Mr. Thomas Atthey likewise killed three examples at the 

 same place, on the 4th August, 1832, two of which he kindly presented to me, and they now form 

 part of my series of this species. Recently another specimen was shot at Newcastle Town Moor, 

 by Robert Duncan, jun., on the 1st of September, 1873. This bird was in its first plumage." 



Mr. Robert Gray only records one instance of its occurrence on the west coast of Scotland, 

 a specimen in his possession having been shot on the Renfrewshire banks of the Clyde, opposite 

 Bowling, in the autumn of 1853; but, he adds, it has occurred several times in the eastern 

 counties ; and he cites one occurrence in Caithness and two in Aberdeenshire. One, Dr. J. A. 

 Smith informed him, was shot near the village of Heriot, Mid-Lothian, on the 14th August, 

 1856 ; and, as stated by Mr. A. G. More (Ibis, 1865, p. 435), Mr. Bond had some eggs, taken in 

 Elginshire, which he considers to be those of the present species. In Ireland the present species 

 is not known with certainty to occur. Mr. H. C. Muller says that it has occurred on the Faeroes, 

 and in Scandinavia it is common and generally distributed throughout the country. Mr. R. 

 Collett says that it breeds commonly in the interior of Norway, chiefly from the arctic circle up 

 to the Russian frontier, but it is numerous southwards through the Trondhjem stift, and breeds 

 in colonies in the southern portion, especially in the birch-region on the fells, as, for instance, 

 on the Dovre and Langfjeldene and their branch ranges. A few nest in the lowlands clown to 

 the Christianiafjord, where it is generally distributed and common on passage. On the west 

 coast, north of Jsederen, it is as rare as the Green Sandpiper. 



Nilsson writes that it is common throughout Sweden from Skane northwards, arriving from 

 the south in April and leaving in September ; and Meves informs me that it breeds in Smaland. 

 In Finland it is, according to Dr. Palmen, one of the commonest Waders, and breeds numerously 

 in the northern districts, being generally distributed during the breeding-season throughout the 

 interior of Finnish Lapland, in Enare and Utsjoki, Muonioniska and Enontekis. I found it 

 common near Uleaborg and Tornea and all along the coast ; and, according to Palmen, it breeds 

 as far south as Helsingfors. Messrs. Seebohm and Harvie-Brown met with it on the Petchora 

 river, in Northern Russia. The first, they write (Ibis, 1876, p. 291), " were shot by us at Ust 

 Zylma on the 26th May. They were frequenting the pools in the middle of the town, and were 

 exceedingly tame, allowing us to approach within a few yards of them. They were very common 

 at Habariki, and we shot specimens, which had perched on the tops of the high dead larches, 

 quite seventy feet from the ground. Northward they became scarcer; and between Abramofl' 

 and Alexievka we lost sight of them altogether. Later, however, on the tundra, we found a few 

 pairs, and obtained the young at Vassilkova. We did not see any further north than Stana- 

 voialachta." It is said to be numerous in the Archangel Government ; and Mr. Sabanaeff says 



