ORNITHOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS, 

 List of specimens collected. 



103 



No. 89047. — Iris brown. Bill brownish black. Feet intense vermilion, without the slightest trace 

 o( orange ; joints and naked part of tibia dark brown ; nails black ; under side of toes orange. 



No. 92767. — Iris dark brown. Bill blackish olive-gray, a narrow space at base of lower mandible 

 reddi.sh flesh-color. Feet orange red, joints dusky. 



The natives call the Tariistone '■^ Krasnonogoj KuliJc,^^ i. e., red legged 

 Sand-suipe, and their Aleutian name of it is ^^KidmalgiJch." It makes its 

 appearance early in May (in 1883 the first ones were observed on the 

 7th), and the beach, especially on the north shore of Bering Island, 

 fairly swarms with them. In June they disappear, and only a few re- 

 main during the summer. These, I suppose, to breed, although I did 

 not succeed in finding any of their nests. However, as early as the 

 latter part of July, even larger flocks than those seen in spring, return 

 from the north. From this time and until late in autumn enormous 

 masses of them may be seen on the killing grounds, near the seal rook- 

 eries, where, thousands of putrified carcasses of the slain fur-seals 

 swarm with myriads of the white larvae of the flesh-fly, upon which 

 the pretty turn stones feed and grow exceedjogly fat. At sunset they 

 retire to the beach, where they pass the night, not, however, without 

 having performed a soldier-like drill by flying up and down the end- 

 less tundra, now in full body, now again in detached divisions, and with 

 admirable precision turning and maneuvering as if obeying the com- 

 mand of a leading officer. 



34. Charadrius squatarola (LiN.). 



l75S.—Triiiga squatarola Lin., Syst. Nat., 10 ed., I, p. 149. — Charadrius sq. Midd., Sibir. 

 Reise. II, 2 (p. 290) (1853). 



nm.—Tringa helvetica LiN., Syst. Nat., 12 ed., I, p. 250.— Squatarola h. Kitti.., 

 Denkw.,II, p. 401 (1858).— Cassin, Pr. Ac. Phil., 1858, p. 195.— Schkexck, 

 Reis. Amurl., I, p. 409 (I860).— SwiNH., Ibis, 1860, p. 63.— Id., ibid., 1661, 

 pp. 5L 342.— M, ibid., 1863, p. 404.— Id., ibid., 1870, p. 360.— /rf.. ibid., 1875, 

 p. 452.— M, P. Z. S. 1863, p.309.— /rf., ibid., 1871, p. 403.— Radde, Reis. 

 Sud. Ost-Sibir., II (p. 322) (1863).— Dyb. &, Parvex, J. f. Orn. 1868, p. 

 337.— Przew., Putesch. U.ssur. (n. 151) (1870).— Taczan.. J. f. Orn., 1873, 



