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forehead. The down of the head is leaden gray, whitish tipped. 
The juvenal plumage just being acquired is not different from 
the plumage of the full-grown fall immatures common in col- 
lections. The taking of this young specimen establishes another 
known breeding station for the species (see Osgood, Auk. XXIV, 
1907, p. 340), although the actual eggs and nest remain to be 
discovered. Another juvenal, though full-grown (no. 1195) was 
secured by Miss Alexander at an elevation of 2450 feet, at 
Thompson’s Pass, on the Eagle Government Trail, August 31. 
This was a considerable distance from the exposed rocky reefs 
of the ocean shore, with which physiographic features the wan- 
dering tattler is ordinarily closely associated. 
Dixon records the following in regard to an adult tattler 
secured on Montague Island July 23, near Hanning Bay: ‘“‘I 
found the bird in a park on the mountain side at an altitude of 
400 feet. As soon as I appeared on a ridge several hundred 
yards from him, he flew up into a tree and began to ‘tattle.’ 
As I came nearer he flew out to meet me, scolding as he came. 
He flew around above me and then went back and lit on the 
very tip of a tree where he bobbed up and down.’’ 
The species was also seen at the mouth of Port Nell Juan, 
at Dise and Storey islands, and at Valdez Narrows. 
Actitis macularia (Linnaeus). Spotted Sandpiper. 
At the head of Cordova Bay, June 10 to 15, this sandpiper 
was found to be common and breeding. Three adult males were 
secured (nos. 1209, 1210, 1212) ; and two sets of eggs were taken 
on the marshes, June 14 and 15. A nest was found also on a 
gravel bar in a creek delta on Hinchinbrook Island. An adult 
male (no. 1211) was taken at Hanning Bay, Montague Island, 
July 27, and two others were seen on the 24th. Two two-thirds 
erown juvenals (nos. 1214, 1215), with natal down still adhering 
to head, neck, tail, and tibiae, were taken August 16, at the head 
of Port Nell Juan. These were part of a family of five adults 
and young. Two other specimens (nos. 1213, 1216) were taken 
in the same locality August 14 and 16. Eight were noted by 
Dixon along the beach here in one day. 
