Mr. E. Adams on the Birds of Michalaski. 439 



of the Diminutive Sandpiper. They built their nests on the 

 higher ground surrounding the marsh. They were very often 

 hovering over their nests and singing a low twittering song. 

 The nest was merely a few dry leaves scraped into a slight 

 hollow. The eggs, four in number, are spotted with large 

 spots of three shades of brown upon a light olive-green ground ; 

 the spots principally collected about the larger end. The 

 small ends were always placed together in the nest^ as with 

 all the Waders. 



Diminutive Sandpiper. Tringa pusilla. 



Lub-e-lub-e-luk-uk, Cloo-me-dr, Eski. 



\_Actodromus minutillus, Dall & Bann. p. 292.] 



The first of these birds I met with as early as the 14th of 

 April, while the snow yet covered the greater part of the 

 surface of the ground ; but it was not till the beginning of 

 the following month that they became numerous. They 

 almost solely confined themselves to the salt marsh and the 

 muddy banks of the river where it was under the influence 

 of the tide ; here they were always to be found in flocks of 

 fifty or a hundred, accompanied by a few Dunlins and Brown 

 Snipes. I often sat on a log whilst they were feeding all 

 around within a foot of me ; but on my making the slightest 

 movement, they were gone with a whisk and a twitter in an 

 instant. Their nests were placed in the same situations as 

 those of the Dunlins. The eggs are spotted with shades of 

 olive-green, principally about the large end_, upon a pale 

 brownish ground. 



HuDSONiAN GoDWiT. LAmosa hudsonica. 



Pe-pe-pe-uk, Eski. 



[Limosa hudsonica, Dall & Bann. p. 293.] 



A few of these birds frequented the marshes on the river- 

 banks, to which they exclusively confined themselves, feeding 

 upon the numerous worms. The first I met with were feed- 

 ing in some shallow pools, on the 21st of May. 



My specimens agree well with Sir J. Richardson's descrip- 

 tions, except that the female had no rufous colour on the 



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