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found iu almost every instance where we nuule the hind except on Wrangel and Herald Islands. 

 It was found on Saint Lawrence Island, in Bering Sea, and I noted it as a regular but not numerous 

 summer resident on the shore of Norton Sound. 



iEGIALITES MONGOLICUS. 



(DO.) The Mongolian Tlover. 



There is a single record of this bird's occurrence iu Alaska. 



Two specimens were obtained on Choris Peninsula, in Kotzebuc Sound, during the summer of 

 1849, by the English search-ship Plover, and were for a long time in Sir John Barrow's collection, 

 presented a few years since to the University Museum at Oxford, where the examples are to be 

 found at present. The record of this is in the " Proceedings of the Zoological Society" of 1871, 

 page 11(», where Mr. J. E. Harting makes various interesting riMuarks concerning the different 

 birds in this collection. 



SCOLOPACID^. SNIPE. 

 GALLINAGO MEDIA -WILSONI (Temm.) Ridgw. 



(91.) Wilson's Snipe. 



This bird is abundant in the interior of the /ur countries, where it breeds. It is among tlie 

 most uncommon of the waders found along the shores of Bering Sea, where, however, it breeds in 

 small numbers. It also occurs on the Arctic coast, especially about Kotzebue Sound, but is 

 unknown at any of the Bering Sea islands or the Northeastern shore of Siberia, although its 

 range undoubtedly includes this latter region, as we found the following species there. 



MACRORHAMPHUS GRISEUS SCOLOPACENUS ^Say) Coues. 



(92.) The Red-Bellied Snipk. 



The present species largely replaces the latter on the shores of the American coast of Bering 

 Sea and is extremely abundant. Its peculiar habits and odd notes in spring make it one of the 

 most conspicuous waders found along our shores. In fall it is silent, but abundant in flocks 

 everywhere along the flat coast wherever brackish pools and shallow tide creeks afl'ord it suitable 

 feeding ground. It is also found about the shores of Kotzebue Sound and still further north, and 

 breeds throughout this range. We found it (common at Cai)e Wai'ikarem, on the North Siberian 

 coast, on August 6, 1881. Ibit there is not a. record of it from the islands in Bering Sea. 



ARQUATELLA MARITIMA (Brunu.) Baird. 



(93.) The Aleutian Sand Piper. 



Along the entire Aleutian chain this Sand Piper, lately described by Mr. Ridgway, is a 

 common resident, breeding throughout its range and straying northward along the entire Bering- 

 Sea coast during the autumn. Although it does not breed anywhere in the region about Norton 

 Sound, yet during August and September, up to tlie closing of the sea bj' ice in October, it is 

 very numerous. The I'urple Sand Piper, mentioned by Pallas as occurring on the Kurile Islands, 

 answers to this species, and this being the case, the range of this bird must be extended to these 

 islands and the adjoining coast of Asia. Tlie present bird is known to have been captured on the 

 Asiatic shore, in the vicinity of Bering Strait, and the record of Nordenskiold of Tiiiu/d nua-itima, 

 occurring at his winter quartei's to the northwest of Bering Strait, must refer to the present bird, 

 since the true Purple Sand Piper is replaced in this region by the i)resent form. This record of 

 Noi'denskiold is the tirst one we have of the presence of this bird in the Arctic, though on the 

 American coast it also occurs iu autumn on the shores of Kotzebue Sound. It is exclusively a 

 shore bird, and if it occurs at all in any region may be confidently looked for wherever the coast 

 is most rugged and strewn with rocks to the water's edge. Most of the former records of Triiuja 



