l>l KI)S 01-' IN l>l A N A. 7 I.") 



AV.v/, a. hollow in ground, lined with grass. Myys, 2-4; greenish- 

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



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

 There are but two records from the interior of the Stale. |)r. HHY- 

 mond observed it in Franklin County (Ind. Geol. Kept. 1869, p. 228). 

 May 20, 1888, Mr. Ruthven 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. P. 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 lie found in the vicinity of Lake 

 Michigan through the lal.ier hall' of May and the first third of June, 

 and from early August nnii! about the middle of September. In the 

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



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

 in Alaska. ]\lr. (ieo. 15. Sennott found them on I he coast of Texas 

 .luring the Inverting season. (Bull. F. S. (J. & ft. Sur. of Terr.; Vol. 

 V, No. a, 1879, p. 4:51). 



Mr. K A. Mcllhemiy says it is an abundant resident, on the coast of 

 Louisiana (The Auk, Vol. XIV, 1S97, p. MS.I). |) () those only who 

 are to breed make the long journey beyond the Arctic Circle, or do. -s 

 this bird breed sometimes on our southern coast? Mr. Mcllhenny 

 has stated that several other -species previously supposed to spend the 

 summer far north arc summer residents of the Louisiana coast. 



