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bowing from side to side, running here and there, as if intoxicated with passion. 

 Whenever he pursues his love-making, his rather low but pervading note swells 

 and dies in musical cadences, which form a striking part of the great bird chorus 

 heard at this season in the north. 



" The Eskimo name indicates that its notes arc like those of the walrus, 

 hence the term ' walrus talker.' Since my return from the north my attention 

 has been called to a note in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 

 (1859, p. 130), where it appears that Dr. Adams noted the peculiar habits of this 

 bird years ago when he passed a season at Saint Michaels. These Sandpipers 

 were beginning to nest when I left the Yukon mouth, and in one instance a 

 female was seen engaged in preparing a place for her eggs in a tuft of grass, but 

 the spot was afterwards abandoned." 



