Ill l>i:i'()ui' (»i'" Si'Ai'K (iiooLocnsT. 



liliick. Adiill ill Wiiilrr, (I ml. I nnnuhirc. — Alxtvc, plain jishy-gray,. 

 with (l;irk sliafl liiK s, will) or without, red ov lihick trnccs; below, 

 while: lilllc or do 1 liicc dl' hjnck on Ihc hflly; jiiniiluni, with ;i few 

 dusky sirciiks iind iiu iiwhy sulTusion. 



Length, 7.(iO-H.:r;; wing, 4.(10-1 .!t5; hill, 1,10-1.75; tursus, 1.00-1.15. 



K'anciH. — North Auicricii in gcuci-al: luccds in Ahiska and .\rctic 

 I'cgions and castcni Asia. WintiTS froni (Julf coast soutJK except 

 about droat Lakes, rare in the interior. 



NcsL a, depressidU in ground lined with urass op leaves. J^^lJ'J^y ^"^J 

 lifitwnish-gi'ayish (U- oli\t' hull', hlolehed, spotted and stainc(l with' 

 rllestnut-hrow ii; I. Ki hy 1.0 I . 



Migrant the latter part <d' May, early in .luue and Oetohev. 8(nne- 

 liuies ahuudant ahont' the lower end of Lake Michigan and tiie small 

 lakes lu'ai' there, in full hrccdiug plumage, in May; elisewhere rare. 



Mr. (ieo. K. Clingniau ohtained a. specimen of this hii'd from the 

 shore of Lak(> Michigan, in Lake (bounty, dune I, 1875) (Coale). Mr. 

 ('. A. 'ralluian infoi'ms \m\ he has taken it at W (dt' Ijake, in Indiana. 



'I'he earliest record T have is from M'r. E. Blackwelder, who t^ook it 

 in ('ook ('(uinty May IS, ISKf). Mr. Tallman took it in the same 

 eounty ^\l\\ \"A aiul ;i(i. ISiXl. May X\'"i. 1SM7, in eompany with .Mr. H. 

 K. Coale, 1 found it very al)\indant, in full plumage, b(>tween Grand 

 Crossing, III., and ihe Indiana lin(\ aiul look several specimens. 



Mr. V\ L. Washl.urn ohtaiiuMl it at Aun Arbor, Mich., May 14. 1888. 

 Mr. Nelson notes its oceurr<Mu-e as late as .hme 5. and in the fall says 

 il returns in winter dress during Septeudier, aud remains well into 

 Oetober (Birds of Northeastern Illinois, pp. 1\?7, 1^8). It dcn-s not 

 seem to Ite as pK'ntiful in fall. Mr. 'ralliuan infon.ns me (d' taking two 

 speeiineus at Cahnnet Lake iu October and (uu* at Mud Lake October 

 \\\ ISP.'l. 



In Alaska il hreeds aluindantly at the ukuiIIi oi' \\\v ^'ukiui. on the 

 shores of N(trt(Ui"s Stunul and at I'oint Harrow, where they arrivi^ from 

 the 10th to tlu> ciul of May. They nest from the first of June to the 

 first of didv. The young art> nH>stly on the winii" tthvard the (Mid (^f 

 the latter mouth, and the l>irds hegin to i^'ather into lloeks ahuig the 

 muddy edges of the braekish pools and banks of tide ereeks. They 

 leav(> in Oetohev (\el<on, ^^. IT. Coll. in Alaska, pp. 110, 111). 



