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I caught one of the downy chicks alive. Holding it in my Land I 

 watched the behavior of the distressed mother. At first she feigned 

 lameness, crying piteously, running about with hanging wings, stumbling 

 and rolling over at every second step. As I did not follow her she came 

 nearer and nearer, at last so close that a stroke of a stick saved me a 

 discharge of the gun. 



39. Actodromas acuminatus (Horsf.). 



1821. — Toiamts amminaiiis Horsfield, Tr. Liuii. Soc.,XIII (p. 192). — Tringaa. SwixH., 

 P. Z. S., 1863, p. •.nCy.—I(L, ibid., 1871, p. 409.— /(/., Ibis, 1803, p. 412.— Id., ibid , 

 1875, p. 455.— TACZA^^, J. f. Om., 1874, pp. 332, 33(5.— /ri., iWd., 1876, p. 201.— 

 Id., Bull. Soc. Zool. Friiuce, 1876, p. 2o2.— Id., ibid., 1882, p. 397.— W., Om, 

 Fauu. Vost. Sibil-., p. 55 (1877).— Blakist. & Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 221.— 

 lid., Tr. As. Soc. Jiip.,VIII, 1880, p. l9o.— lid., tbid., X, 18»2, p. 112.— 

 Blakist., Amend. List B. Jap., p. 3 (1884). — Bogpan., Cou.sp. Av. Ross., I, 

 p. 91 {lo84).— Actodromas a. Ridgw., Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1880, p. 222.— Id., 

 Nomeucl. N. A. B., p. 68 (18811.— Beax, Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus., 1882, p. 164.— 

 Nelson, Cruise Corwiu, p. 86 (1884). 



1839. — TriiKja auslralis Jakd. & Selby, Illustr. Orn., II (pi. 91) 



1853.— rrin(7tt rufesceiis Middend., Sibir. Reise, II, 2 (p. 221) {tuc Vieill.). 



1863. — Triruja pectoralis SwiNll., Ibis, 1863, p. 97 {ntc ISay). 



ISTi.—Triiiga crasairostris Taczan., J.f, Oru., Is73, p. 103 {ncc T. & S.). 



Lint of sjjecimens collected. 



No. 89(129. — Irisdark brown. Bill blacki.slibi own. more brownish, or ratber dark reddish pray, at the 

 mouth anple, and somewhat lighter gray at base of lower mandible. Feet ocher-yelluw, tinged with 

 olive, and with darker joints. 



No. 890'28. — Bill blackish brown, lighter towards base, which, especially on the lower mandible, is 

 olive gray. Feet gray, .strongly tinged with yellowish olivo ; joints purer and darker gray. Stomach 

 contained Gnmmaridoe. 



No. 89030.— Outstretched legs, with the tip of toes, reached 30""" beyond the tip of tail. 



Of this species I only obtained young sijecimens on Bering Island 

 during the autumnal migration of 1882. From the middle of September 

 and during the following three weeks they were observed both on the 

 tundra near the great lake and on the rocky beach of the ocean search- 

 ing forGammarids. They were very shy and mostly single or in small 

 families. Larger flocks were never seen. 



