TAVERNER AND SWALES, ON BIRDS OF POINT PELEE. 87 



We expected to find adults present the latter end of August, but 

 when we arrived at the Point August 24, 1907, all secured were in 

 juvenile plumage. Saunders thought he saw a couple with the red- 

 dish breast of the adult bird, but was unable to secure them and no 

 more were noted. It is well known that the older individuals of this 

 species arrive early in the fall and generally depart before the first 

 of the juveniles arrive. 



52. *Limosa hcemastica, Hudsonian Godwit. 



May 13, 1905, Taverner took a high plumaged male Hudsonian 

 Godwit along the strip of clear water that separates the sand dune 

 from the marsh. It stood bunched up under a small bush with its 

 feet just wet with" the lapping of the water, uttering a series of short, 

 sharp "cheeps" that first attracted our attention to it See Auk, 

 XXIII, 535. 



.".:;. -Totaiinx melanolciicus, Greater Yellow-legs. 



We have seen but two of this species on the Point. Both killed by 

 Gardner on the marsh, Sept. 3 and 14, 1906. The shooters speak en- 

 thusiastically of the "big Yellow-legs" they shoot on the marsh in 

 October. No doubt it is a regular and common migrant, though fewer 

 in numbers than the next species. 



r. 1. *7'o////;/. fluripes, Yellow-legs. 



We have only met this species in early September, our earliest date 

 bring the 1st, in 1907, and the latest the 19th, in 190G. This gives 

 \ Try little idea of their migrationnl movement as they arrive at De- 

 troit the second week of July, and by the first of August are present 

 in great flocks. The bulk of them seem to leave about the first of 

 September. 



.":,. *lleltlr(tmas soUtariiis, Solitary Sandpiper. 



We have met but single individuals of this species on the Point in 

 various September visits, viz. the llth and IGth, in 1905, and the Gth, 

 in 1907. Saunders also saw one the latter year, August 28. Both the 

 latter were observed in a drainage ditch at the base of the Point. In- 

 deed, Point Pelee is not ground suitable to their tastes at all, and un- 

 less some are to be found on the rnud banks scattered through the 

 marsh through July and August their occurrence at all is likely ac- 

 cidental. 



50. *TriiH<iites s/&n///Vo///x, Buff-breasted Sandpiper. 



August 29, 1907, Taverner took a male at the extreme end of the 

 final sand spit at the end of the Point. It was in company with a small 

 bunch of Seuiipalmated Sandpipers and Sanderling. It seemed quite 

 tame and was easily secured. It is numbered 924 in the collector's 

 collection. 



