56 Jh'rd-Lifc ill Tjdhnidor. 



blind flurry for a short distance, only to return to nearly or 

 quite the same spot again, makes me certain that I have seen 

 flocks of them upon luore than one occasion. 



RED PHALAROPE 



Pli(ilar<)^)({s fiilicni'inx — - {^■'■) Bp. 



I SAAV several (Utcks and single birds, which were undoubt- 

 edly of this species, just off' the coast at sea, between Belie 

 Isle and Chateau Bay. As Dr. p]lliott Cones procured speci- 

 mens from off Belle Isle I am the more certain that those I 

 saw were of this species. They were very graceful little fel- 

 lows and not at all wild, except in keeping in the sea ofiMand, 

 all the time that we saw them at least. 



WHITE HUMPED SANDPIPER 

 BONAPARTE'S SANDPIPER 



Acfodroiiiits hoiKijxirfii. — (Schl.) ('ol'Ks. 



p]vEi;vwHi-:iiK I went in Labrador I lieard of the " Sand 

 birds." What the sand l)ir(ls were was a great mvsterv until 

 I shot some of them and j)rocured the above sj)ecie^. To sav 

 that they were alnmdant would be sj)eiking very mildly ; 

 they were everywhere, both uj) and down the coast. It is the 

 sandpi|)er of Labrador, and e(]ually common on the rocky and 

 sandy beaches and nuiddy flats at lovv water, though it rather 

 favors the latter location. Its history has been well worked 

 u|) in my larger work, so 1 will repeat it here : Of the white- 

 rumjx'd sandpiper I saw several immense flocks on the fiats 

 near tlie house ; the bii'ds were ([uite lame. Some had the 

 chestnut edgings of the wings very !)r()ad and deep, while sev- 

 eral of them had either the head or neck, and one had both, 

 (piite ashy; the greater part of them liaci very little chestnut, 

 that color Ix'ing replaced by ash ; the chestnut edgings seemed 

 to be on birds that were passiuu- from the last stage of voung 

 of the vcar to adult birds, hut 1 inav he mistaken. lioth 



