The Oologist. 



Vol. XXII. No. 2. 



Albion, N. Y., Feb., 1905. 



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The Oologist. 



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Discovery of Eggs of the Knot. 



Walter raine, Toronto, Canada. 



In "Nests and Eggs of British Birds, 

 non Indigenous," the author Mr. 

 Charles Dixon, publishes the follow- 

 ing in regard to the eggs of the Knot. 



"Several reported eggs of the Knot 

 are in collections, but none of them 

 are authenticated. The reputed egg 

 obtained by the Greely Expedition, 

 near Fort Conger, is unidentified and 

 apparently too small, size 1.10 x 1.00. 

 The egg in the possession of Mr. See- 

 bohm, although unauthenticated is 

 more likely to be genuine so far as 

 size is concerned, being similar to that 

 of the Common Snipe, but paler in 

 ground color. This egg was obtained 

 at Disco, in Greenland; in my opinion 

 a locality much too far south. This 

 however, is not the most southerly lo- 

 cality at which reputed eggs of the 

 Knot have been obtained. W. Raine 

 in his "Bird Nesting in Northwest 

 Canada," figures and describes what 

 he asserts to be two eggs of this birds, 

 taken on the 20th of June, 1889, at 

 Rododavmsi in Iceland. The account 

 is circumstantial enough, but unfor- 

 tunately the parent birds appear not to 

 have been obtained. It. is only fair to 

 say that Mr. Raine's eggs agree appar- 

 ently in color with that obtained by 

 Lieutenant Greeley, but are larger in 

 size and certainly, judging from the 

 ' illustrations, very abnormal in appear- 

 ance. The nest is described as a de- 

 pression lined with bits of drift wood, 

 the eggs having the ground color pale, 

 pea green, finely speckled with ashy 

 brown." 



Although some years have past since 

 the above was published, nothing has 

 occurred to shake my faith in these 

 Knot eggs collected for me in Iceland 

 in the year 1889. It is impossible for 

 these unique eggs to be that of any 

 other bird. What else can they be?' 

 The only species nesting in Iceland 

 laying eggs of a similar size to the 



