THE COAST AT MONTEREY 



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the Snipe, while vo vailing to their Arctic summer homes, 

 hadencouiitercd tli(\<;ak'aiid ])een stranded in vast numbers. 

 A week hiter, we found many wrecks of this feathered fleet 

 ashore on the Fai'alh)nes, where their ])oor, emaciated little 

 bodies were floating in the rock-enclosed pools left by the 

 tide. i 



T had previously seen this bird only on the Atlantic, rest- 

 iiiii' in great lieds on the waters or rising in silvery, curling 



Northern Phalarope Whirling 



waves before the ai)i)roach of our steamer. While I regret- 

 ted the disaster which had befallen the half-starved little 

 waifs, I realized that their ill luck was my good fortune, and 

 lost no time in availing myself of this unusual opportunity 

 to make the acquaintance of a bird which but few natura- 

 lists have met intimately. 



All the vjuiet bodies of water contained Phalaropes, a 

 large pond in tL > city of Monterey being fairly speckled 



