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STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE BULLETINS. 



Genus EREDNETES III. 



113-24(>-((>12j. Ereiinetos ])iisilliis (Linn.). Semipalmated Sandpiper. 



Common; "throughout the state" (A. H. Boies); migrant; "rare in Monroe Co." 

 ('Jerome Trombley); "spring and fall, at Port Sanilac" (W. A. Oldfield); "taken as 

 late as June and as early as August" (Dr. M. Gibbs); "Mackinac Island where I 

 took one specimen Sept. 4, 1889" (S. E. White); "Keweenaw Point'' (Kneeland); 

 "Shore of Lake Michigan during August" (Butler's Birds of Indiana). 



Genus CALIDKIS Cuv. 



114-248-(()27 ). Calidris areiiaria (Linn.). Sanderling. 



"Common migrant near Lake Erie" (Jerome Trombley); "see flocks at Port 

 Sanilac, but only in spring" (W. A. Oldfield); "common on the shores of the Great 

 Lakes, migrant" (Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); "very common, in flocks, on the shore 

 of Lake Michigan '' (Butler's Birds of Indianaj. 



Genus LlUOSai Beiss. 



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115-249-(628). Liniosa fedoa (Linn.). Marbled Godwit; Great Marbled God- 

 wit ; Doe Bird ; Dough Bird. 



Rare; shores of the Great Lakes; May and Sept.; migrant; "taken near Lake 

 Erie by gamesters (gunners)" (Jerome Trombley); "one male shot at Port Sanilac" 

 (W. A. Oldfield); "not uncommon about Lake Michigan'' (Brayton); "migrant"' (Dr. 

 J. B. Steere); Davie, p. 117, says it is known to breed in Northern Ohio and Wiscon- 

 sin; Prof. Ludwig Kumlein writes me that it breeds in Northern Wisconsin, and pre- 

 sumably in our Northern Peninsula, and Mr. H. Nehrling informs me that it breeds 

 in Northern Michigan. 



116-251-(629 ). Limosa luvinastica [Linn.). Hudsonian Godwit ; Lesser Doe 

 Bird. 



Rare; migrant; about Great Lakes; "taken near Lake Erie by gamesters" 

 (Jerome Trombley); "not very rare about Lake Michigan" (Brayton); given doubt- 

 fully by Dr J. B. Steere as a migrant; " taken at Niles and in Calhoun Co." (D, D. 

 Hughes). 



Genus TOTANDS Beohstein. 



Greater Yellow Legs, natural size. 



