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plaintive whistle of the Golden Plover (Charadrius pluvialis), I have repeatedly caused Godwits 

 to turn at right angles to ther previous course and fly directly towards me ; nor have they in such 

 cases discovered their error until I raised the gun to fire. 



" The individuals of the same flock of Bar-tailed Godwits often differ greatly in size. Of 

 about thirty Bar-tailed Godwits examined by me one day the bills of some exceeded in length 

 those of others by at least one third. The shorter bills also are not generally so much recurved 

 as the longer ones. 



" This species seems to be fond of the company of other Waders. I have seen them even 

 attempting to keep pace with a flock of Golden Plovers ; but in this they never succeeded, the 

 headlong, swinging flight of the latter being by far too swift for them. The greatest number of 

 those birds I have seen flying in one flock numbered about forty individuals. They were feeding 

 and flying in company with about an equal number of Knots (Tringa canuta), of the company of 

 which species they seem to be especially fond. 



" On the west coast the Bar-tailed Godwit does not appear to be so numerous as on the east 

 coast; nor do the numbers visiting Scotland equal those which frequent the sea-lochs of Ireland. 

 There, as we are informed by Thompson, some hundreds are at times seen in one flock." \ 



It has not been recorded, so far as we can ascertain, from Greenland, Iceland, or the Fseroe 

 islands, but in Scandinavia it is common, appearing on the southern coasts in the spring, breeding 

 in the high north, and returning again to the south in the early autumn. Mr. Collett records it 

 as occurring on the southern and western coasts of Norway, sparingly in the spring, but rather 

 more numerously in the autumn ; it has very rarely occurred in the interior ; and the same may 

 be said respecting its occurrence on the southern coast of Sweden, where, on its autumn migration, 

 it appears in September. It breeds in Lapland, where the late Mr. Wolley procured the eggs, 

 and Nilsson records it as breeding in Enare-Lapland. Dresser has obtained the eggs, as well as the 

 young, from Muonioniska ; but it appears to be a rare breeder there, judging from the scarcity 

 of the eggs. Mr. Collett states that flocks occur in East Finmark (Varanger fiord) during 

 migration, and that it is supposed to breed there. Wheelwright, when collecting at Quickjock, 

 never procured the eggs of this species, but considered that it bred there. It passes through 

 Finland during migration, and probably breeds in the northern portions of the Government of 

 Archangel. Sabanaeff records it as rare in the Government of Jaroslaf, but as in all probability 

 breeding in the northern part of the Government of Perm ; he once met with it during migration 

 near Ekaterinburg. All along the southern coasts of the Baltic it is a regular migrant, much 

 commoner than the Black-tailed Godwit, but rarely seen in the interior. Meyer, however, speaks 

 of it as rare in Livonia. In Denmark, Mr. Benzon informs us, it is, during migration, numerous 

 in some localities, but it seldom occurs in full summer-plumage. With regard to its occurrence 

 in Holland, we are informed by Mr. Labouchere that it is there to be seen regularly on the coast 

 from August to October, though by no means so numerous as the Black-tailed Godwit, and is 

 said to have bred there. On the coasts of France it is a regular migrant in the spring and 

 autumn; but, according to MM. Jaubert and Barthelemy-Lapommeraye, it is never seen in 

 Provence in large numbers. In Spain, Mr. Howard Saunders informs us, it is of rare occurrence 

 in the western portion of the country, but far commoner in the east ; he saw a specimen in the 

 market at Malaga in November; and Major Irby states that it is "found on the Spanish side of 



