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pelago, and has been admitted to the American 

 Check-List, on account of its rare occurrence in 

 Alaska, a single specimen having been taken on 

 Otter Island in Bering Sea, June 8, 1885. 



On Berino: Island it has been observed in 

 large flocks in May, and feeds on the small crus- 

 taceans which abound in the masses of seaweed 

 lying on the beaches. A few breed there in a large 

 swamp behind the town, and also in Kamchatka 

 and part of northeastern Siberia, but the eggs are 

 unknown. 



DUNLIN 



{Tringa alpind) 



Plumage — Similar to T. a. pacifica, but smaller, and less brightly 

 colored in breeding plumage ; the pale markings of the upper 

 parts are buffy, and the black abdomen is not strongly contrasted 

 with the speckled breast. 



Downy young— Xi^'i^&x parts, black, spotted with rufous and white; 

 forehead and sides of head buflfy white ; dark line from bill 

 above and below eye ; under parts grayish white. 



Measurements — Length, 7.50 inches; wing, 4.50 inches; culmen, 

 1. 1 5 to 1.40 inches; tarsus, .85 to i inch; middle toe, .70 to 

 .75 inch. 



Eggs — Four ; olive, buff, or pale greenish ; spotted or speckled with 

 Vandyke brown and purplish gray; measure 1.30 inches by .95 

 inch. 



Habitat — Breeds in Scotland and the islands north, occasionally 

 England, Iceland, and probably Greenland, Denmark, Russia, 

 eastern Turkestan, and Siberia, east to the Yenisei River, and 

 north to latitude 74°, and has bred in Spain ; winters in Great 

 Britain, Holland, and the Caspian Sea, south to the Canaries, 

 northern Africa, Somaliland, possibly Zanzibar, and east to 

 Calcutta; in North America has been recorded from west of 

 Hudson Bay, Massachusetts, Long Island, New York, New 

 Jersey (?), and Washington, D-C ; also taken in Spitzbergen. 



