438 Mr. E. Adams on the Birds of Michalaski. 



A few Turnstones made their appearance, in pairs, on the 

 31st of May. They frequented the salt marsh before men- 

 tioned, where I often found them sitting upon some logs of 

 drift wood that overhung the water. They fed about the 

 mud upon insects, worms, &c. ; but I never saw them on the 

 sea-shore, nor in company with other birds. 



Red-necked Phalarope. Phalaropus hyperhoreus. 



Cher-p6k-lo-ok, Eski. 



[Lohipes hijperhoreus, Dall & Bann. p. 290.] 



In the beginning of June a very few of these birds were 

 to be met with in the pools about the salt marsh ; they were 

 generally in the water, swimming about and picking the flies 

 from the surface. I saw none of them at sea, and only one 

 or two pairs in perfectly fresh water. 



Grey Phalarope. Phalaropus lobatus. 



I-im'-e-nuk, Eski. 



[^Phalaropus fulicarius, Dall & Bann. p. 291.] 



Arrived on the 7th of June. Some of them kept to the 

 sea-shore, often swimming out to sea; but the majority fre- 

 quented the salt-water marsh, keeping together in small 

 flocks of six or eight. They have not the elegant movements 

 of the other species, and were more often searching the mud 

 with the Sandpipers. The natives told me that both the 

 species breed there ; but I did not find their nests. 



Brown Snipe. Macrorhamphus griseus. 



Ki-o-kok-ar, Tdl-ik, Eski. 



[Macrorhamphus griseus, Dall & Bann. p. 291.] 



Arrived on the 20th of May, and soon spread themselves 

 over the marshes, singly and in pairs ; but the greater num- 

 ber of them frequented the salt marsh, where they fed about 

 the mud in company with flocks of the Diminutive Sandpiper 

 and Dunlin, which were the only birds I saw them asso- 

 ciating with. 



American Dunlin. Tringa alpina. 



Cher-o6-me-nok, Eski. 



[Pelidna alpina, var. americana, Dall & Bann, p. 291.] 



A few of these birds frequented the salt marsh with flocks 



