280 BIRDS. 



one on July 25, one at the end of the line of fish stakes about one mile 

 north of Sand Point on June 27, and one on Stony Island, July 12. 



Early in the morning of June 22 we heard a strange squawk from a 

 heron perched in a tree at the edge of a grassy inland swamp, and 

 when the bird was flushed it proved to belong to this species. Again 

 on July 25 we saw three flying over to the south near the same spot. 

 At an old camp site on the south shore of the point we found a pair 

 of legs of this species nailed to a tree. Mr. Brackenbury told us that 

 a short-legged, short-necked, spotted or striped heron with a thick 

 heavy bill was caught in a net about one of the fish pounds early last 

 spring, and this was no doubt an immature bird of this species. 



15. Rallus virginianus. Virginia rail. — Michigan: Common sum- 

 mer resident, breeding throughout the state. 



One was seen on Sand Point on August 17, and another at Rush Lake 

 on August 6. The only bird seen on Sand Point was flushed from the 

 rushes bordering the east side of Wild Fowl Bay; the one at Rush lake 

 was seen in a grassy marsh at the edge of the lake. 



16. Gallinula galeata. Florida gallinule. — Michigan: Abundant 

 summer resident throughout the southern peninsula, breeding in 

 grassy swamps. , (We know of no records for this species from the 

 Upper Peninsula.) 



A single bird was heard calling in the marsh which surrounded the 

 small lake near the base of Sand Point, but none w^ere seen. 



17. Fulica americana. American coot. — Michigan: Abundant 

 summer resident, breeds locally in wet marshes throughout the state. 



One individual was seen in Saginaw Bay, off the north side of Sand 

 Point, and another was seen near Rush Lake (August 6), where it was 

 reported by the residents as common in spring and fall. 



18. Philohela minor. American woodcock. — Michigan: A com- 

 mon summer resident and breeder throughout the state. 



Two were seen at the edge of a thicket near the base of Sand Point 

 on July 10, three in a damp wooded swamp at Stony Island on July 

 13, a dead bird was found in the road near Rush Lake on August 4, 

 and one was flushed in a low Avet thicket near Rush Lake on August 

 13. 



Mr. Wallace of Bayport told us that in October this species is 

 usually very abundant on Stony Island, Sand Point, and in the upper 

 part of Huron County generally, where they stop on their southern 

 migration to feed in the low woods and thickets. 



19. Tringa canutus. Knot. — Michigan: A rather rare migrant 

 not known to breed in the state. 



On August 20, wdiile observing the incoming flocks of sanderling, 

 turnstones and other inigrating sandpipers on the sand flat west of 



