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islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, probably 

 about the middle of July, and the early date of its 

 passage south is doubtless a reason why more 

 have not been taken. Late in August, 1894, I 

 shot a number of young stilt sandpipers near 

 Cooperstown, North Dakota. They were in a 

 considerable flock on the edge of a small pond. 

 In the spring these birds are very seldom seen on 

 the Atlantic Coast of the United States, their 

 migration being along the Mississippi Valley and 

 to the west. While shore-bird shooting on Broad- 

 water Bay, Virginia, in May, 1896, I took a single 

 specimen of this bird ; it was the first the gun- 

 ners there had seen in the spring. There are also 

 a few instances of the bird being taken on Long 

 Island and in Connecticut in late May and early 

 June. MacFarlane found this species breeding at 

 Rendezvous Lake, and it was tolerably common 

 at Franklin Bay. He obtained the eggs now in 

 the Smithsonian Institute. The nest is placed 

 on the ground and lined with leaves and grass. 



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KNOT 

 {Tringa canutus) 



Adult male and female in breeding plumage — Head and upper parts, 

 pale gray, variegated with black and reddish ; rump and upper 

 tail-coverts, white, barred with black ; superciliary stripe, throat, 

 breast, and sides of abdomen, light cinnamon ; lower abdomen, 

 pure white ; under tail-coverts and flanks, white, spotted with 

 black ; iris, brown ; bill, legs, and feet, black. 



