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Heteropygia bairdi : Baird's Sandpiper 



Barrington Island. 



The Webster-Harris Expedition captured a male on Bar- 

 rington^ on October 6, 1897. 



A male (No. 2004 C. A. S.) was taken at Wafer Bay, Cocos 

 Island, Costa Rica, on September 4, 1905. 



Phalaropus hyperboreus: Northern Phalarope 



Albemarle, Indefatigable, James, and Narborough islands. 



No specimens of the Northern Phalarope were taken, but 

 we saw the species at times about the archipelago. Two or 

 three bands of about twenty each were seen on the water on a 

 very foggy morning, April 10, in Banks Bay, Albemarle 

 Island. 



On August 13, while sailing from Cowley Island to south 

 James, hundreds of phalaropes, apparently of this species, were 

 seen near the latter island. They were flying south close to 

 the water, while a few were seen on the water. It was a 

 cool day with a brisk southeast wind. 



In the early afternoon of September 12, when about ten 

 miles southwest of Indefatigable Island, we came upon thou- 

 sands of phalaropes in large compact flocks, mostly on the 

 water. The flocks were close together, and as far as one 

 could see, looking from the deck towards Indefatigable, the 

 water was dotted with them. The sky was overcast, the 

 temperature moderate, and the usual southeast trade wind was 

 blowing. 



On August 18, 1905, in latitude 7° 24' North, longitude 

 103° 52' West, three Red Phalaropes (Crymophilus fulicarius) 

 were seen, two of them being taken. 



Steganopus tricolor: Wilson's Phalarope 



Albemarle Island. 



On November 3, 1905, two males and one female were shot 

 on a small saline lagoon about half a mile inland from the 

 village of Villamil, Albemarle Island. They were very tame 

 and unsuspicious. 



^Nov. Zool., V. 6, p. 188. 



