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Mr. H. F. Witherby on Birds 
Limicola platyrhyncha. 
The Broad-billed Sandpiper seems to be very rare between 
Kandalax and Ekaterina. Pleske has no record of it. We 
found a pair on a marsh near Raz-Navolok, and shot single 
birds on two marshes near the Pulozero. One of the latter 
shot on July 22nd, to judge from its actions, certainly had 
eggs or young, and an empty nest in some moss had perhaps 
contained them. 
[Pleske records Tringa alpina from near Kandalax (Law- 
row) .] 
Tringa temmincki. 
A number of TemminclPs Stints were frequenting a piece 
of marshy land quite close to Kola on July 28th, and a week 
later we found a few here and there on the small marshes 
near Ekaterina. 
Machetes pugnax. 
Reeves were common on several of the marshes near the 
Imandra and the Pulozero, but we neither saw nor obtained 
a single Ruff. We noticed that the legs of the Reeves 
varied considerably in colouring, from greenish-yellow to 
bright lemon-yellow. 
Tringotdes hypoleucus. 
Common Sandpipers were fairly numerous on nearly all 
the lakes and rivers from Kandalax to within four miles of 
Kola. 
Totanus glareola. 
On every marsh, and on almost every bit of marshy land, 
between Kandalax and Kola the Wood-Sandpiper was to be 
found. This bird seemed to me to take the place of the 
Redshank on our home marshes and that of the Stilt in the 
Spanish marshes, in its only too successful endeavours to 
annoy the intruder. 
Totanus calidris. 
We saw a few Common Redshanks in Kola Bay and near 
Ekaterina, but nowhere else on our route. 
[Pleske observed one specimen at Zasheech, and saw several 
broods near Kola.] 
