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Young in dotvn, about 2 days old (Tamsø in the Porsanger- 

 fjord. July 3rd 1872), measured as follows: — Total length BSmm, 

 larsns 21, culmen 11 mm. The coloration was very similar to that 

 of Tr. maritima and Ttmminckii. The brown spot on the back 

 was distinctly visible. Crown of the head a rich chestnut, mixed 

 with black, and sprinkled behind with white-tipped down. Over 

 the eye stretenes a broad yellowish band; a short stripe passes 

 through the eye, and behind there is a black spot immediately 

 beneath it. Wing brown. The protnberance on the bill already 

 dropped. 



This brood was guarded by the female bird and not, as I had 

 observed in Tr. maritima and TemmincMi, by the male. 



This spedes varies considerably in size, and the female, as 

 in most of the Tringæ, is larger than the male. A pair shot in 

 Nordland, on the loth July 1871, measured: — Male, total length 

 188 mm, female 204 mm. The latter had the dorsal plumes widely 

 margined with reddish grey. Some few individuals retain their 

 summer plumage till late in autumn, and I have observed individ- 

 uals with the vent black as late as the 19th September. 



The stomachs of the individuals shot in Nordland contained 

 Coleoptera, finely bruised Litorinæ, a number of black seeds, and 

 coarse sand. 



The young immature individuals of the preceeding year, con- 

 gregate in flocks, and frequent the sea-shore and the neighbouring 

 swamps. 



Tringa Te mm in c~ki i , Leisl. 



Breeds on the shores of West-Finmark, and possibly in greater 

 numbers than the foregoing spedes; as a breeding bird, it is 

 distributed throughout the whole of Finmark, at least down to Al- 

 ten and Tromsø (69° 40'). 



With regard to its habits, this bird differs in many respects 

 from several of its congeners. When observed in the neighbour- 

 hood of its nest or of its young, it exhibits considerable alarm, 

 and will hover for hours together round the person who ap- 

 proaches, uttering the while a peculiar trilling note, — fim\ tirrr. I 



