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lection, Cincinnati, Ohio. Mr. C. E. Aiken informs me that he has 

 observed it occasionally in Lake County in flocks. 



Mr. E. W. Nelson found this one of the most common waders on 

 the shore of Norton's Sound, in summer, and it is also present in 

 smaller numbers all along the Yukon, where there are suitable locali- 

 ties. He found it at the Yukon mouth. May 12, and toward the end 

 of that month they were plentiful, and their curious habits and loud 

 notes make them among the most conspicuous denizens of the marshes. 

 There they mate and nest. The following is a description of a set of 

 four eggs taken there June 16: "The eggf^, four in number, rested in 

 a shallow depression formed by the bird's body in the soft moss and 

 without a trace of lining. These eggs measures respectively 1.80 by 

 1.21; 1.70 by 1.20; 1.69 by 1.20; 1.72 by 1.23.'' 



48. fiRNus MICROPALAMA Batrd. 



92. (233). "micropalama himantopus (Bonap.). 



stilt Sandpiper. 



Adult in Summer. — Above, blackish, each feather edged and tipped 

 with white and tawny or bay, which on the scapulars becomes scal- 

 loped; auricularS;, chestnut; a dusky line from bill to eye, and a light 

 reddish superciliary line; upper tail coverts, white, with dusky bars; 

 primaries, dusky, with blackish tips; tail feathers, ashy-gray, their 

 edge and a central field, white; under parts, mixed, reddish, black and 

 w^hitish, in streaks on the j.ugulum, elsewhere in bars; bill and feet, 

 greenish-black. 



Immature and Adult, in Winter. — Ashy-gray above, with or with- 

 out traces of black and bay, the feathers usually with white edging; 

 line over the eye, and under parts, white; the jugulum and sides, 

 suffused with the color of the back, and streaked with dusky; legs, 

 usually, pale. 



Length, 7.50-9.25; wing, 5.00-5.30; bill, 1.55-1.75; tarsus, 1.55-1.70. 



Eange. — America, from Brazil, Peru and West Indies, northeast 

 of Eocky Mountains to Arctic regions. Breeds within the Arctic 

 Circle. Winters in Louisiana and southward. 



Nest, depression in ground, lined with grass and leaves. Eggs, 3-4, 

 light-drab, or grayish-white, with bold spots and marknigs of chest- 

 nut-brown; 1.42 by 1.00. 



Eare migrant. Found in this latitude in April, July and August, 

 September and October. I have no spring records. The only Indiana 

 record is of a specimen taken by L. A. and C. D. Test, at Hed- 

 ley's Lake, October 10, 1892. This is in my collection, for which the 



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