BIRDS OK INDIANA. 'M.~> 



.\V,v/, a, hollow in ground, lined with grass. Mgyf> 9 2- x l; groenish- 

 drab, spotted all over with brown; 1.60 by 1.17. 



Rare migrant. Except along Lake Michigan it is almost unknown. 

 There are but two records from the interior of the State. Dr. Hay- 

 inond observed it in Franklin County (Ind. Geol. Kept. 1869, p. 22S). 

 May 20, 1888, Mr. Euthven Deane observed it in Starke . County. 

 Messrs. Eliot Blackwelder and C. A. Tallman identified two Turn- 

 stones at Wolf Lake, Ind., May 23, 1896; two were also seen there 



Bill of Turnstone. 



June 9 of that year. August 8, 1897, Mr. F. M. Woodruff took two in 

 breeding plumage at Miller's, and August 21 took a young male at the 

 same place. Nelson has noted them in Cook County, 111., about Sep- 

 tember 20. 



They may be said, therefore, to be found in the vicinity of Lake 

 Michigan through the latter half of May and the first third of June, 

 and from early August until about the middle of September. In the 

 fall, at least, they are generally found with flocks of small Sandpipers. 



They breed far northward along the coast of the Arctic Ocean and 

 in Alaska. Mr. Geo. B. Sennott found them on the coast of Texas 

 during the breeding season. (Bull. F. S. G. & G. Sur. of Terr.; Vol. 

 Y, No. a, 1879, p. 431). 



Mr. E. A. Mcllhenny says it is an abundant- resident on the const ol' 

 Louisiana (The Auk, Vol. XIV, 181)7, p. 28!)). Do those only who 

 are to breed make the long journey beyond the Arctic Circle, or docs 

 ibis bird breed sometimes on our southern coast? Mr. Mel I benny 

 has stated that several other species previously supposed to spend I be 

 summer far north are summer residents of the Louisiana coa<1. 



