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Migration. — It arrives on Bering Island during the latter part 

 of May and on Kamchatka as early as May 21. Fall migrants reach 

 the Philippines as early as August 10. 



Casual record. — Accidental on the Pribilof Islands, Otter Island, 

 June 8, 1885. 



Egg date. — Siberia : 1 record, June 18. 



PISOBIA RUFICOLLIS (Pallas) 

 RUFOUS-NECKED SANDPIPER 



HABITS 



A long time ago Col. John E. Thayer (1909) added this species 

 to the North American list. In a lot of birds which he received 

 from A. H. Dunham were a pair of adults and two young of the 

 rufous-necked sandpiper, or eastern least stint, as it is also called. 

 They were collected at Nome, Alaska, on July 10, 1908, where they 

 had evidently bred. This record was discredited, however, and the 

 species was placed on the hypothetical list. But the species was 

 firmly established as a North American bird by Alfred M. Bailey 

 (1926), who reported the capture of two specimens in Alaska, an 

 adult female at Cape Prince of Wales on June 11, and a bird of the 

 year at Wainwright on August 15, 1922. The birds were breeding in 

 that vicinity, an offshoot from the main breeding range of the species 

 in northeastern Siberia. 



Sprmg. — The main migration route is northward from southern 

 Asia, the Philippine Islands, and even Australia, through the Kurile 

 and Commander Islands and Kamchatka to its breeding grounds. 

 Dr. Leonhard Stejneger (1885) says: 



This species arrives at Bering Island late in May in rather large flocks, but 

 does not stay long. None were met with during the whole summer, until, in 

 the first half of September, they took a short rest on the shores of our island 

 before continuing their long travel to the southward. 



A large series of these birds was collected by the Jesup North 

 Pacific expedition in northeastern Siberia. Dr. J. A. Allen (1905) 

 quotes from the field notes of N. G. Buxton as follows : 



Abundant spring and fall migrant, and some breed at Kooshka, but the 

 majority move farther inland during the breeding season. First birds arrived 

 May 28, and were common on the 30th in large flocks and in company with 

 the red backed. By June 5 they have paired or passed on, and are not com- 

 mon again until the second week of July. They have mostly gone by Septem- 

 ber 11. In habits similar to Pelldna alpina. 



Nesting. — Mr. Bailey (1926) was fortunate enough to see a pair 

 building their nest, along a stream bed on the high tundra at the 

 base of Wales Mountain, Alaska; in his notes for June 14, 1922, he 

 wrote : 



