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uncovered by the ebbing tide. At times a bird would stand motion- 

 less on one foot for many minutes as if to rest, and it was sur- 

 prising to note how inconspicuous they often were, especially when 

 little sand pockets occurred among the dark masses of rock. The 

 dark upperparts and light underparts blended so perfectly with 

 the shore-line landscape that the outline of the bird was lost until 

 possibly the red bill betrayed them. 



CHARADRIUS SEMIPALMATUS Bonaparte 



Semipalmated plover 



Charadrius semipalmatus Bonaparte, Jouni. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 5, 1825, p. 98. (Coast of New Jersey.) 



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

 another migrant species nesting in the north that does not seem to 

 have been recorded previously from this island. 



Mr. Cleaves reported seeing this plover with the black-bellied 

 plover on Indefatigable Island, June 17, the only record other than 

 the specimen taken on Cocos Island. 



PLUVIALIS DOMINICUS FULVUS (Gmrlin) 



Pacific solden plover 



Charadrius fulvm Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1. pt. 2, 1789, p. 687. (Tahiti.) 

 A female was collected on Eiao in the Marquesas group, Sep- 

 tember 28, 1929. 



Eiao Island is an elevated table-land with parts of its sides made 

 up of almost perpendicular walls over 2,000 feet high. The escarp- 

 ment has been broken down in some places, one of which bears a 

 steep trail leading up to the summit. The top is an interesting, 

 rolling plateau, cut in places by broad but rather shallow valleys, 

 and bearing here and there clumps of woodland. On the open knolls 

 and slopes where the introduced sheep had closely trimmed the 

 turf we flushed a flock of 15 or more golden plovers and an occa- 

 sional tattler which seemed much out of place. This open stretch 

 of several hundred acres uniformly showed shorebird droppings, 

 which would seem to indicate that a large number had recently held 

 rendezvous here before passing onward. 



ARENARIA INTERPRES OAHUENSIS (BJoxham) 



Pacific turustone 



Tringa oahuensis Bloxham, Byrou's Voy. Blonde to the Sandwich Islands, 

 1826 (publ. February 20, 1827), p. 251. (Hawaiian Islands.) 



Two specimens, male and female, were obtained on Tower Island 

 in the Galapagos June 15, 1929. Both are in worn winter dress, the 

 male showing some advance toward breeding plumage about the head. 



