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the Lake Laboratory. As the records indicate, single birds are 

 usually seen, and I am inclined to believe that they represent trail- 

 ers ratlicr tlian the stream of misration. They are usually asso- 

 ciated with >Si)otted Sandi)iiiers, Sanderliugs, and Semipalniated 

 Sandpipers, feeding at the waters edge, ranging ui) and down the 

 beach. I believe tliat Pelee Island would furnish the clue to the 

 migration route northward as well as southward of this Plover. 



T!>. JJi/iiilitis ineJoila. — Piping I'lover. 



Several pairs were found breeding near the Lake Laboratory in 

 l!)o:'>. and their ])resence tliere on June 17, 1!>04, indicates that there 

 was at least one pair breeding that year, but I have failed to find 

 an.v in summer since, nor an.v on the islands at any time. At best the 

 species is scarce. Kecords of occurrence are May 16, 1903, one at 

 Oak I'oint. and perhaps six pairs near the Lake Laboratory during 

 tlie breeding season; June 17, 1004, a pair near the Lake Labora- 

 tory; April 1.1, one, and ^Nlay I."!, one on the sand spit, 1907; May 

 IS. lt>OS. two on the sand spit; May 17, 1909, one on the saud spit. 

 I have lieard voices that I believe to have been of this bird in 

 early July at the Lake Laboratory, in 1907 and 1908, but it was 

 at twilight and the birds were flying. If they were Piping Plovers 

 tliey were ])robably the tirst of the returning birds from the north. 



SO. Ai-einiria intcrprcs. — Ruddy Turnstone. 



I have found it on the lake beach from tlie middle to the last of 

 May, usually in companies of from five to thirty individuals. The 

 only fall record is September S, 1904, at Oak Point. Unlike most 

 of the other Shore Birds, the Turnstones range over the whole width 

 x)f the beach when feeding. They are fretiuentl.v seen standing 

 ((uietly on the packed sand, or even on the flat tops of the piles 

 driven to i)revent the wash of the storm waves. There is no 

 frequenter of the beach so strikingly colored nor more interesting 

 to watch from cover. The misnomer 'Calico-back' does these birds 

 a rank injustice, if the mental pictxire which that name conjures 

 up is like mine — any hideous Ijlue and white pattern of cheai» 

 dressing goods. The patchy black, white, and ruddy pattern of 

 these birds in full breeding plumage is rather a hint of wealth 

 than of poverty. 



