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Every endeavour to procure well- authenticated 

 eggs of the knot (Tringa Canutus, Lin.), the 

 curlew sandpiper (T. subarquata, Tern.), or the 

 sanderling (Galidris a/renaria, Leach), in Scandi- 

 navia have entirely failed ; although I feel pretty 

 certain that one or other of them breed in some 

 of the secluded fell tracts, for I have shot both the 

 knot and pigmy curlew in full summer dress on 

 the coast of Skane as early as the first week in 

 August. 



As I before observed, this is a very bad district 

 for the snipes. The only nest I obtained was that 

 of the common snipe (Scolopax gallinago, Lin. ; 

 " makkastak," Lap. ; " enkel becassen," Sw.). I 

 killed one single example of the double snipe (8. 

 major, Gm. ; " dubbel becassen," Sw.) in the 

 spring, and, strange to say, I flushed it in a dry 

 open fir wood, far away from any water. This 

 was the only specimen I saw, and I never met 

 with the jack snipe ($. gallinula, Lin.) in this 

 district. 



None of the rails or crakes appear to come so 

 far north. 



Of the phalaropes, I could never detect the 

 grey phalarope {Plial. jplatyrhmchus, Tern.) in 

 this district ; but the little red-necked phalarope (P. 

 hyperboreus, Lath. ; "sma nabbad sunsnappa," Sw.; 

 "svapalas," Lap.) was very common in the higher 



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