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description in the observers' field notes adequately confirms the 

 identification. The specimen from Pearl and Hermes constitutes the 

 first specimen record from either the main Hawaiian or Hawaiian 

 Leeward Islands. The sight record of the knot from Midway con- 

 stitutes the first record of this species' occurrence there. The only 

 other record from the entire Hawaiian area is a knot seen on Oahu 

 Oct. 29, 1961 (Ord, 1962). 



Knots breed in arctic North America east to Greenland, the New 

 Siberian Islands, and Wrangel Island, and migrate south principally 

 along the coasts of the Old World (AOU, 1957). 



Sanderling Crocethia alba 



Although a regular winter resident in the Hawaiian area (Bryan 

 and Greenway, 1944), sanderlings nonetheless are unrecorded from 

 several of the atolls and islands in the Hawaiian Leeward Chain. 

 Specimens have been taken on Laysan Island and French Frigate 

 Shoals (Bailey, 1956), and sight records have been reported from Mid- 

 way Atoll (Donaghho, 1953-54; Kenyon and Rice, 1957) and Kure 

 Atoll (Robbins, 1966). 



To these records we add specimen records from Green Island, Kure 

 Atoll (USNM 496975, Jan. 16, 1966), and Sand Island, Midway Atoll 

 (USNM 493259, Sept. 14, 1963; USNM 493250, 493252, Nov. 13, 

 1963; USNM 493251, Jan. 12, 1964). New sight records made by the 

 POBSP include the following: 



Lisianski Island: An estimated 20 sanderlings seen Mar. 12-13, 

 1963, and Mar. 11-12, 1964; two seen Sept. 18, 1964; five seen Mar. 13, 

 1965; eight seen Mar. 20, 1967. 



Pearl and Hermes Reef, Southeast Island: One sanderling seen 

 Feb. 26, 1963; two seen Mar. 13, 1964; one seen Mar. 21, 1965; two 

 seen Mar. 21-23, 1967. Seal Island: A "few" seen Mar. 5, 1963; one 

 seen Mar. 22, 1967. Grass Island: One seen Feb. 5, 1963; three seen 

 Mar. 14, 1964; two seen Aug. 18, 1964; three seen Mar. 19, 1965. 

 Sand Island: One seen Mar. 14, 1964. Humphrey Island: One seen 

 Aug. 18, 1964. North Island: One seen Aug. 19, 1964. 



Western Sandpiper Ereunetes mauri 



Huber collected a moderately fat, male western sandpiper (USNM 

 497298) Dec. 30, 1966, on a sandy beach at Green Island, Kure Atoll. 

 Three sight records of western sandpipers have been reported pre- 

 viously from Oahu in the main Hawaiian Islands (Udvardy, 1961b; 

 Rockafellow, 1964), but no specimens have been collected previously 

 in that\rea and none have been reported from the Hawaiian Leeward 

 Islands. 



