204 HENSHAW, American Birds in Hawatt. juip 
mens are still extant, and later I hope to be able to see and to 
identify positively the species. 
Since the above was written I shot another Red Phalarope 
from a flock of Akekeke (Arenaria interpres) on the Hawaiian 
coast near Hilo, April 6. The bird may yet be found to be an 
irregular winter visitor to Hawaii, coming down with the flocks of 
Plover and Turnstones. ‘That it should associate with the Turn- 
stone, and with them feed in the upland cane fields, is rather 
remarkable. The flock from which my specimen was shot was. 
on its way from upland to its roosting places on the coast. 
SANDERLING (Calidris arenaria). 
This species is recorded from Kanai by both Stejneger and 
Wilson. It appears to visit the Kau and Kona coasts of Hawaii 
annually in small numbers. In October, 1899, I shot two indi- 
viduals at Kaalualu, Kau, and Mr. Sam Kauani, a resident who 
is well posted on the shore birds of the locality, assured me that 
it was by no means uncommon, and sometimes was seen in 
small flocks, oftener one or two in company with the Akekeke 
(Arenaria interpres) . 
Witson’s SNIPE (Ga/linago delicata). 
Mr. George C. Hewitt, Manager of Naaleho Plantation, Kau, 
informs me that he killed a ‘Jack Snipe’ near Naaleho some 
years ago. Mr. Hewitt is a sportsman and is very sure that the 
bird was no other than Gallinago with which he is well acquainted. 
I feel sure that Island records of the shore birds of the north- 
west will multiply as time goes on. The immense flocks of Plover 
and Turnstone that each year wend their way from the American 
coast to the island must surely prove a magnet to attract other 
species hither, to say nothing of occasional individuals that 
mingle with these species in migration and unwittingly accompany 
them in their flight till all unwittingly they find themselves on 
foreign shores. 
