. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 152 NBST8 AND EBOS OF [267.] WHUIBBEL. Nvmenius pbaopus (Linn.) Geog. Dist.—Old W«rW; •ecasional in Greenland. In England and Scotland this bird is known as Wtiimbrel Curlew, "Half-Cur- lew," or Jaxik Curlew. It breeds throughout Northern. Europe and Asia. Though. pretty generally diffused in Great Britain, it is only found breeding in the extreme north of Scotland, on the Orkney and Shetland Islands, where the eggs are hatched by the first part of June. In these places the nests are made on elevated portions of the heath. Durin
. Nests and eggs of North American birds. Birds; Birds. 152 NBST8 AND EBOS OF [267.] WHUIBBEL. Nvmenius pbaopus (Linn.) Geog. Dist.—Old W«rW; •ecasional in Greenland. In England and Scotland this bird is known as Wtiimbrel Curlew, "Half-Cur- lew," or Jaxik Curlew. It breeds throughout Northern. Europe and Asia. Though. pretty generally diffused in Great Britain, it is only found breeding in the extreme north of Scotland, on the Orkney and Shetland Islands, where the eggs are hatched by the first part of June. In these places the nests are made on elevated portions of the heath. During the breeding season the Whimbrel is found on the Faroe Islands and in Iceland. It is distributed throughout Denmark, Scandinavia and Russia; a. few are known to breed in Lapland, as far north as latitude 65°. It is said by the best authorities that this bird is the most widely diffused of all the waders. Its extra-limital range includes Siberia, India, China, Australia and Africa. On the Faroe Islands it is recorded as breeding from the 25th of May to the 17th of June. The nest being simply a depression in the soil on some slight elevation in dry spots in marshes. The eggs are four in number, pear-shaped, and vary in color from light olive-brown to dark greenish-brown, clouded with spots and blotches of dark umber; average size [268.] BRISTLE-THIGHED CTTRLEW. Niimeniiis tahitiensis (Gmel.) Geog. Dist.—Islands of the Pacific Ocean; occasional on the coast of Alaska and Lower 268. Bristle-thighed CCKLEW. (From Nelson.) This Curlew, which is a native of various islands in the Pacific Ocean Is glT»a a place in our avifauna on the ground that two examples were taken on our western coast, one at St. Michael's Island and the other on Kadiak Island, Alaska. [269.] LAPWING. Tanellus vanellus (Linn.) Geog. i;i3t.—Xorthern portioa «f Eastern Hemisphere; occasional In Arctic America, Greenland and the Islands of Norton Sound, Please note that
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