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]and; I cannot, however, with Mr. Tristram, see anything 
about them to distinguish them from eggs of the other 
species : their close resemblance was to be expected. 
Dr. Middendorf, who met with this species breeding in 
numbers on the river Taimyr, in Lapland, says that it 
was not easy to find the eggs; that the birds would leave 
their nests with loud cries when he was at a great distance 
from them. It has eggs at the end of June, two or-three 
in a nest. 
