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sets of fresh eggs, numbering three and four respectively were taken 
on June 11,1913; the male incubating one and the female the other. 
Both birds when disturbed fluttered off the nest like other sandpipers. 
The nests were cavities on small mounds of tundra lined with dry 
willow leaves. | 
A downy young with the male was taken at Cape Serdze, July 16,. 
1913. Its plumage agrees absolutely with that of minuta as described 
by Sharpe, in the Catalogue of birds of the British Museum, 24, p. 541. 
_ The shorter interscapulars which are just showing through the down 
in this specimen, are black with rufous margins, the longer have 
white edges with a slight mixture of rufous. 
PISOBIA MINUTILLA (Vieillot). 
LEAST SANDPIPER. 
At Demarcation Point, on June 5, 1914, I saw three small sandpipers 
flying east that I am convinced were this species. 
PIsOBIA DAMACENSIS (Horsfield). 
LONG-TOED STINT. 
This uncommon bird was observed by us at Capes Shipunski and 
Zhipanov, Kamchatka. At the former locality three were seen and 
a pair taken on May 21,1913. Several were seen at Cape Zhipanov, 
on May 25, 1913, and a female taken. Two females from Copper 
Island taken May 25, —, were purchased. 
PISOBIA TEMMINCKII (Leisler). 
TEMMINCK’S STINT. 
A few were seen at Cape Serdze, July 17 and 18, 1913, where a 
series of adults and downy young was secured. 
PISOBIA PECTORALIS (Say). 
“PECTORAL SANDPIPER. 
Although this is a common bird throughout Arctic Alaska in 
general, it bred very sparingly in the vicinity of Humphrey and De- 
marcation Points. 
