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witfa white; on the back is a largish patch of brown, dotted with white- 

 tipped plumlets. and circled in by a black annular band. Belly 

 white, wings same colour as back; manus white. Femora brown 

 mixed with black, the inner side white. 



Region of the eye whitish, crossed by a black longitudinal 

 streak from the bill to the eye; a somewhat fainter stripe of the 

 same hue stretenes obliquely from the gape. 



Winters in countless thousands along the whole coastal line up to 

 the North Cape and the Russian frontier, but in Finmark less 

 numerously than farther south. Rare on the innermost shores of 

 the great fjords, stragglers only having been met with on the 

 Christianiafjord farther inland than Drøbak. An individual was 

 killed near that town on the 12th November 1871. On examination 

 of the stomach of this specimen, it was found to contain young 

 of Litorim and Mytilus edulis, together with seeds of a sea- 

 shore plant; that of individuals shot in the summer in Finmark, 

 contained only the remains of insects, in particular Otiorhynchus 

 blandus, Schønh. 



Trin ga s ub ar q nat a, Giild. 



Occurrence in Finmark as a breeding species not yet authen- 

 ticated. On its autumn passage, this bird, like the rest of the 

 Tringæ, is met with everywhere along the coast, as far north as 

 Tromsø, and, in certain localities, in considerable numbers. 

 Trin g a ni i nut a, Leisl. 



Hitherto, this species has been known in Europe as a bird of 

 passage only; it breeds however in several localities in the interior 

 of Finmark. In July 1872, I found it common on Store Tamsø, in 

 the Porsangerfjord, its favourite haunt being amongthe shingle of 

 the beach, where food is most plentifully found. In common with 

 the other species of the genus, this bird displays little timidity. 

 I failed to discover any of its eggs or young; the organs of 

 generation in the specimens examined w r ere, however, fully developed 

 in both sexes, and both had large incubation spots. 



Male and female in summer plumage have the crown reddish 

 brown with a number of black spots, the innermost part of the 



