the Birds of the Lower Petchora. 309 
grass, it 1s possible that we might have added their. eggs to 
our list ; but the accounts we received, like many other items 
of information, were most conflicting, one person affirming 
from personal observation, that the said islands are grass- 
covered, and another being equally positive that they are not. 
We cannot but believe, however, that their breeding-haunts 
were not far distant, whether upon the islands of the Golaiey- 
skai group, unvisited by us, or upon the coast east or west of 
Dvoinik, or upon the coast of the Timanskai tundra, or upon 
all of these. 
In regard to the migration of the Sanderling in the south 
of Russia, the authors of the Russian work already referred 
to tell us that it has been seen in spring on the Sarpa, and 
in the autumn at Kasan. 
This species must have an Saye circumpolar distri- 
bution during the breeding-season, although comparatively 
little as yet has been recorded of its breeding-habits. Prof. 
Newton (P. Z. 8. 1871, p. 56) notices a Sanderling’s egg ob- 
tained by McFarlane near the Anderson river, in N.W. 
America, which was sent to him by the Smithsonian Insti- 
tution, a figure of which will be found (¢om. cit. pl. iv. fig. 2). 
Shortly afterwards, as we are further informed by Prof. 
Newton, the eggs collected by the German North-Pole Ex- 
pedition were sent to him; and among them were some which 
he could hardly doubt to be those of C. arenaria. These he 
exhibited to the Zoological Society (20th June, 1871), and 
stated that an examination of the series showed that an egg 
which Wolley and he bought in Iceland in 1858, was almost 
unquestionably a Sanderling’s also* (P. Z.S. 1871, pp. 546, 
547). The eggs obtained by the German Expedition were 
found on Sabine’s Island, east coast of Greenland, in 1869, 
and have been described by Prof. Newton (Zweite deutsche 
Nordpolarfahrt, ii. pp. 240-242). 
ScoLopax GALLINAGO, L. 
We found the Common Snipe rather abundant at Habariki 
* Canon Tristram also exhibited three eggs, supposed to be of this bird 
(P. Z.S. 1864, p. 337), along with two birds. 


















