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Peck’s Beach, New Jersey, and also found the 
young birds running along the beach, feeding 
with the parent bird. Two eggs are all I have 
found in a nest, which is made of sea-drift. 
Strepsilas [nterpres—llh g. 
Turnstone. 
Very abundant about the 1oth of May, along 
the seashore, feeding upon the eggs of the king- 
crab; and arrives about the same time in lowa, 
in great numbers, feeding on the craw-fish about 
the sloughs on the prairie. 
Recurvirostra Americana.n— Gm. 
American Avoset. 
I found it upon Ege Island on the Delaware 
river, in the month of June, also in Kansas, on 
the first of June, where it breeds. 
Fhimantopus Nigricollis —Veerllot. 
Black-Necked Stilt. 
I have never found but one specimen of this 
bird which I have been able to shoot at, but have 
seen others on Egg Island, in Delaware Bay, 
where it breeds. 
Phalaropus Wilsonti.—Sab. 
Wilson’s Phalarope. 
Breeds in large numbers in Iowa. The nest 
is made close to the sloughs upon some drift 
grass or reeds. Eggs four. It makes its appear- 
ance about the 20th of May. Breeds in June. 
