Bird-Life in Labrador. 53 



TURNSTONE 



Strepsilas interpres. (L.) ILL. 



MY only note on the turnstone reads : Common at Dead 

 Island and along the coast in small flocks. They are rather 

 rare apparently, when classed with the other sandpipers and 

 waders which frequent the coast. 



AMERICAN SNIPE 



Gallinago wihoni. (TEMM.) BP. 



THIS is another species that must be given on other au- 

 thority than my own, and that from a single specimen only. 

 Yet it is undoubtedly not rare at times all along the coast. 



RED-BREASTED SNIPE 



Macrorhamphus griseus. (GM.) LEACH. 



THIS bird also undoubtedly occurs, but must be given on 

 the same authority as the last. One or two specimens only are 

 really on record from the coast. 



LEAST SANDPIPER 



Actodroma* iiiinHtM.a. (V.) COUES. 



THE least sandpiper is simply a diminutive specimen of the 

 " grass snipe/' which it resembles in nearly every particular, 

 though frequenting more particularly the mud flats and the 

 water's edge rather than the sandy beach and grassy slopes. 

 The greater part of those that I saw did not appear to associ- 

 ate with any other species, but were found in small flocks 

 feeding by themselves, and usually at a time of day when few 

 of the other species were about, say from 10 a. m. to 4 p. m. 

 They are common all along the coast in Spring and Fall, and 

 breed during the Summer. I saw none of the immense flocks 



