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In addition to those taken on Tower Island, five turnstones were 

 seen on a dry slough on Seymour Island June 21; four on a reef at 

 Daphne Island June 23 ; and three on Hood Island on July 1. 



NUMENIUS HUDSONICUS Latham 



Hudsonian curlew 



Numenius hudsonicus Latham, Index Orn., vol. 2, 1790, p. 712. (Hudson Bay.) 

 Two of these curlews, with five turnstones, seen June 21 on a dry 



lagoon on Seymour Island, were the only ones observed during the 



trip. 



HETEROSCELUS INCANUS (Gmelin) 

 Wandering tattler 



Scolopax incamis Gmexin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 658. (Eimeo, or 

 Moorea, Island, Society group, and Palmerston Island, Pacific Ocean.) 



A male was taken at Wafer Bay on Cocos Island June 5, 1929, by 

 A. K. Fisher. This specimen is in winter dress at a time when its 

 companions in Alaska are beginning to nest and so would seem to 

 represent an abnormal individual that had lacked physiological incen- 

 *^ive for the northward migration. 



Snodgrass and Heller ^^ record one as seen in Chatham Bay, Cocos 

 Island, in July. This species was found again in fall in the Mar- 

 quesas, where an adult male, still partially in breeding dress, was 

 taken on Uahuka September 19, and an adult and an immature bird 

 were shot on Eiao September 28. 



The wandering tattler was noted in the Galapagos Islands at Inde- 

 fatigable Island, at Daphne June 23, and at Hood Island July 1. 

 At Eiao Island of the Marquesas group it seemed very odd to find 

 individuals on the high, dry plateau at an altitude of over 2,000 feet, 

 and others on the low reefs on the shore of the island. In the 

 Tuamotu Islands this species was seen at Takaroa October 1, and at 

 Toau October 4. On this latter atoll it also was found at little ponds 

 away from the shore where in action and flight it suggested the 

 solitary sandpiper. 



PISOBIA FUSCICOLLIS (Vicillot) 



White-rumped sandpiper 



Tringa fuscicoUis Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat., vol. 34, 1819, p. 461. 

 (Paraguay.) 



A female taken at Wafer Bay, Cocos Island, June 5, 1929, is in 

 breeding plumage. The date is late for occurrence of this migrant. 



^Proc. Washington Acad. Sci., vol. 4, Sept. 30, 1902, pp. 511-512. 



