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Two full-grown juvenile males were secured, the only ones seen. The}' were 

 feeding on the beach at the edge of the surf. These were undoitbtedly migrants 

 from further north. 



Ti'inga rnaadata Vieill. 

 Pectoral Sandpiper. 



I noted this species Imt once, on the 27th of May, '99, near our winter camp 

 on the Kowak. A pair was seen at a grassy pond on the tundra, and a male 

 secured. 



Tringa bairdii (Coues). 

 Baird's Sandpiper. 



At Cape Blossom, from July 20th to August 6th, '98, this species was fairly 

 common. All the specimens taken were full-fledged juveniles. They were in 

 scattered companies, busil)' foraging along the edge of the water on the beach or 

 about the mouths of sloughs. In company with them were usually Ercunetes. I 

 did not gain any evidence that the Baird's Sandpiper breeds in the immediate 

 vicinity of Cape Blossom, but I have no doubt that it does so not far to the north- 

 ward, perhaps on the north side of the vSound. On Ma}' 20th, '99, I shot a solitary 

 female Baird's Sandpiper near our winter camp on the Kowak. It was feeding at 

 the edge of the river. For the succeeding few days small parties of sandpipers 

 were often seen migrating northward, and I thought included this species. 



Tringa miimiilla Vieill. 

 lyEAST Sandpiper. 



I took a single full fledged juvenile female of this species on the beach near 

 the Mission at Cape Blcsscm on the icth of August, '98. This was probably a 

 migrant from the interior to the eastward or northward. In the following spring 

 the species became fairly common in the vicinity of our winter camp on the 

 Kowak. The first ones were seen on May 15th when the muddy mouths of 

 sloughs along the river began to be bare of snow. At midnight of June ist, I shot 

 a pair of Least Sandpipers at the edge of a muddy pool where they had been 

 feeding. The oviduct of the female contained a fully-shelled ^'g^, which would 

 probably have scon been laid. The shell was pale blue, brown-spotted. On June 

 3rd, while exploring a stretch of tundra extending northward from the river, I 

 encountered several pairs of Least Sandpipers. But one pair was seen in a single 

 place. Their particular haunts appeared to be the vicinity of grassy ponds, and 

 here I have no doubt they were either nesting or about to do so. One of a pair 

 was often seen in pursuit of the other, flying around the ponds or mounting high 

 upward to dash down and skim low over the ground again, meanwhile uttering an 

 occasional prolonged weak twitter. The eskimo name for any of the small sand- 

 pipers is Ki-3'e'-ot. 



Tringa alpina pacijica (Coues). 

 Red-backed Sandpiper. 

 I saw a single individual of this species at the edge of a lagoon at Cape Bios- 



