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pelago, and has been admitted to the American 

 Check-List, on account of its rare occurrence in 

 Alaska, a single specimen having been taken on 

 Otter Island in Bering Sea, June 8, 1885. 



On Bering Island it has been observed in 

 large flocks in May, and feeds on the small crus- 

 taceans which abound in the masses of seaweed 

 lying on the beaches. A few breed there in a large 

 swamp behind the town, and also in Kamchatka 

 and part of northeastern Siberia, but the eggs are 

 unknown. 



DUNLIN 

 (Tringa alpind) 



Plumage — Similar to T. a. pacifica, but smaller, and less brightly 

 colored in breeding plumage ; the pale markings of the upper 

 parts are buffy, and the black abdomen is not strongly contrasted 

 with the speckled breast. 



Downy young — Upper parts, black, spotted with rufous and white; 

 forehead and sides of head buffy white ; dark line from bill 

 above and below eye ; under parts grayish white. 



Measurements — Length, 7.50 inches; wing, 4.50 inches; culmen, 

 1. 1 5 to 1.40 inches; tarsus, .85 to 1 inch; middle toe, .70 to 

 .75 inch. 



Eggs — Four ; olive, buff, or pale greenish ; spotted or speckled with 

 vandyke brown and purplish gray; measure 1.30 inches by .95 

 inch. 



Habitat — Breeds in Scotland and the islands north, occasionally 

 England, Iceland, and probably Greenland, Denmark, Russia, 

 eastern Turkestan, and Siberia, east to the Yenisei River, and 

 north to latitude 74 , and has bred in Spain ; winters in Great 

 Britain, Holland, and the Caspian Sea, south to the Canaries, 

 northern Africa, Somaliland, possibly Zanzibar, and east to 

 Calcutta; in North America has been recorded from west of 

 Hudson Bay, Massachusetts, Long Island, New York, New 

 Jersey (?), and Washington, D.C ; also taken in Spitzbergen. 



