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been itniftic-able to boat about tbere for thorn, but at Oak I'oint, 

 where tho marshes grade into mud and grass flats I have always 

 found oonsiderablo numbers at the proper seasons. It is also not 

 unconunon in the meadows in Avhich water stands in spring. The 

 old doad-furrows which contain water are prettj' certain to haA'O 

 their (juota of from one to many Snipes during April. Fifteen 

 years ago there was considerable snipe hunting, but I have seen 

 very little of it recently. In tho fall the birds return late in Sep- 

 tember and remain about a month. At this season one must look 

 for them in marshy ground, where the food is abundant. It has 

 never l)eeu my fortune to see and hear the courting antics of this 

 bird. 



Gl. I'riiKju cainitiis. — Knot. 



I have not met this bird, but Mr. L. ;\I. McCormick, who spent a 

 number of years at Oberlin prior to 1892, states in his manuscript 

 list that it is a rare migrant on the lake shore only. In view of its 

 ri'gular occurrence at Point Pelee one might reasonably expect to 

 find it somewhere along tho route of migration. 



02. Plsohia maculata. — Pectoral Sandpiper. 



The most numerous of our sandpipers prior to 1808, but since 

 then it has been scarce. I l)olieve that one of tho causes for its 

 diminution has boon the draining and undertiling of the meadows 

 and boggy pot holes in \vhich it found good feeding places, because 

 the places where I now find it are meadows made temporarily wet 

 by newly constructed railroad embankments or other obstruction. 

 I have never seen single individuals while the birds are here, but 

 always flocks. The first appear during the first ten days of April 

 (earliest April 3, 1909), and the last have gone north by the mid- 

 dle of May. The only fall record I have is for the sewer settling 

 beds, September 20 and 25, 1907, a flock of twelve birds. 



o;;. PUohia hairdii. — Baird's Sandpiper. 



I have only two actual records for the region. Mr. L. M. Mc- 

 Cormick makes the statement, backed up by three specimens in the 

 Oberlin College collection, that it was common on August 30, 1890, 

 at Oak Point. I found one at the Oberlin Water Works reservoir 

 on Ai)ril 28, 1909. I feel confident that this sandpiper is fairly reg- 

 ular in its migrations across this region, but it has somehow es- 

 caped being seen. 



04. Pisohia iniitutilla. — Least Sandpiper. 



This sandpiper makes its appearance pretty regularly during the 

 second week in May, and is therefore among the latest migrants. 

 It rarely remains more than five days. I have no positive fall rec- 

 ords. While here it is more often found on the mud fiats or in shal- 

 low field ponds feeding industriously, but flocks may occasionally 



