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found in almost every instance where we nade the land except on Wrangel and Herald Islands. 
It was found on Saint Lawrence Island, in Bering Sea, and I noted it as a regular but not numerous 
summer resident on the shore of Norton Sound. 
Z##GIALITES MONGOLICUS, 
(90.) THE MONGOLIAN PLOVER. 
There is a single record of this bird’s occurrence in Alaska. 
Two specimens were obtained on Choris Peninsula, in Kotzebue Sound, during the summer of 
1849, by the English search-ship Plover, and were for a long time in Sir John Barrow’s collection, 
presented a few years since to the University Museum at Oxford, where the examples are to be 
found at present. The record of this is in the “ Proceedings of the Zoological Society” of 1871, 
page 110, where Mr. J. E. Harting makes various interesting remarks concerning the different 
birds in this collection. 
SCOLOPACID A. SNIPE. 
GALLINAGO MEDIA WILSONI (Temm.) Ridgw. 
(91.) WILSON’S SNIPE. 
This bird is abundant in the interior of the fur countries, where it breeds. It is among the 
most uncommon of the waders found along the shores of Bering Sea, where, however, it breeds in 
small numbers. It also occurs on the Arctic coast, especially about Kotzebue Sound, but is 
unknown at any of the Bering Sea islands or the Northeastern shore of Siberia, although its 
range undoubtedly includes this latter region, as we found the following species there. 
MACRORHAMPHUS GRISEUS SCOLOPACENUS (Say) Coues. 
(92.) THE RED-BELLIED SNIPE. 
The present species largely replaces the latter on the shores of the American coast of Bering 
Sea and is extremely abundant. Its peculiar habits and odd notes in spring make it one of the 
most conspicuous waders found along our shores. In fall it is silent, but abundant in flocks 
everywhere along the flat coast wherever brackish pools and shallow tide creeks afford it suitable 
feeding ground. It is also found about the shores of Kotzebue Sound and still further north, and 
breeds throughout this range. We found it common at Cape Wankarem, on the North Siberian 
coast, on August 6, 1881. But there is not a record of it from the islands in Bering Sea. 
ARQUATELLA MARITIMA (Briinn.) Baird. 
(93.) THE ALEUTIAN SAND PIPER. 
Along the entire Aleutian chain this Sand Piper, lately described by Mr. Ridgway, is a 
common resident, breeding throughout its range and straying northward along the entire Bering 
Sea coast during the autumn. Although it does not breed anywhere in the region about Norton 
Sound, yet during August and September, up to the closing of the sea by ice in October, it is 
very numerous. The Purple Sand Piper, mentioned by Pallas as occurring on the Kurile Islands, 
answers to this species, and this being the case, the range of this bird must be extended to these 
islands and the adjoining coast of Asia. The present bird is known to have been captured on the 
Asiatic shore, in the vicinity of Bering Strait, and the record of Nordenskidld of Tringa maritima, 
oceurring at his winter quarters to the northwest of Bering Strait, must refer to the present bird, 
since the true Purple Sand Piper is replaced in this region by the present form. This record of 
Nordenskiéld is the first one we have of the presence of this bird in the Arctic, though on the 
American coast it also occurs in autumn on the shores of Kotzebue Sound. It is exclusively a 
shore bird, and if it occurs at all in any region may be confidently looked for wherever the coast 
is most rugged and strewn with rocks to the water’s edge. Most of the former records of Tringa 
