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mens were secured, but I have no doubt that they were Aleutian 

 Sandpipers. 



About ten o'clock, on the night of July 24, we landed at a reindeer 

 camp on the north side of St. Lawrence Island to secure a supply 

 of fresh meat. The sun had set and the soft twilight, which takes 

 the place of night during the short Arctic summer, was settling over 

 the earth. As I strolled along the beach, gun in hand, the faint 

 whistling of shore birds was heard. Surmounting a small ridge, I 

 found a long irregular shaped lagoon with stony shore, from which 

 again came the same call notes. As I made my way along the shore, 

 stumbling now and then over some half-hidden rock, a small flock of 

 birds would fly out over the water, circle, and return to the land. 

 With the water of the lagoon as a background they were plainly 

 visible, but upon alighting on the shore, were at once swallowed up 

 in the deep gloom. If shot while flying they would have fallen into 

 the water and have been lost, but by some half dozen shots into the 

 darkness, in the direction in which they appeared to alight, I suc- 

 ceeded in obtaining four specimens. They proved to be Pribilof 

 Sandpipers, the only ones met with during the trip. 



PISOBIA MACULATA 



Pectoral Sandpiper 

 This species was met with only at St. Michael and at the mouth of 

 the Yukon, and at neither place did I find it common. Eggs were 

 taken and specimens of the downy young. 



PELIDNA ALPINA SAKHALINA 



Red-backed Sandpiper 

 At no time during the breeding season was this species met with 

 south of Bering Strait. A few were seen August 7 at Point Hope, 

 and I was given two eggs that were taken there during June. They 

 were very plentiful near Cape Lisburne and also on the Siberian 

 coast. 



EREUNETES PUSILLUS 

 Semipalmated Sandpiper 

 The only specimens of this bird that I saw were two shot on July 28, 

 at Imaruk Basin. 



EREUNETES MAURI 



Western Sandpiper 



With the possible exception of the Alaska Longspur this is the 

 most abundant bird on the stretch of tundra that borders the Bering 



