50 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OP MICHIGAN. 



Rev. Chas. Fox; May and Sept.; small flocks; if this bird occur in Michigan it is 

 very rarely. 



105-235»-(616). Tringa macnlala Vieill. Pectokal Sandpiper; "Jack Snipe"; 

 Grass Snipe. 

 Very abundant; migrant; "throughout the state" (A. H. Boies); "very common on 

 Lake Erie in Monroe Co.'' (Jerome Trombley); " taken at Plymouth "' (J. B. Purdy); 

 "not rare but decidedly irregular in spring and autumn" (Dr. M. Gibbs); we have 

 taken several here at Lansing; May and Sept.; flocks about marshes; migrant; good 

 game bird; feeds extensively on locusts and other insects. 



1 06*240-(617).L Tringa i'nscicollis Vieill. White-bbmped Sandpiper; Bonaparte's 

 Sandpiper. 

 "Not common north " (Gibbs' Birds of Michigan); "breeds far north of us" (Dr. A. 

 K.Fisher); Jerome Trombley reports it not rare about Lake Erie; "migrant at Ply- 

 mouth" (J. B. Purdy); "migrant" (Dr. J. B. Steere); "a rather rare, irregular 

 migrant " (Dr. M. Gibbs); " breeds far north " (H. Nehrling). 



107-241-(615). Tringa bairdii (Coues). Baird's Sandpiper. 



This species is embraced in Covert's Birds of Michigan, Cabot's Birds of Lake 

 Superior, and is given by Wheaton as a migrant in Ohio. 



108-242-(614). Tringa minutilla Vieill. Least Sandpiper. 



Common in spring and fall; April and Sept.; "throughout the'state" (A. H. Boies); 

 Jerome Trombley reports it very rare in Monroe Co.; "not rare in Kalamazoo Co." (Dr. 

 M. Gibbs); " I see it often in flocks in spring and fall in Shiawassee county, about 

 lakes" (Dr. W. C. Brownell); "migrant at Plymouth" (J. B. Purdy); "migrant in Alle- 

 gan Co." (S. E. White); Mr. White also reports it at Mackinac Island; taken by E. E. 

 Brewster, May 24, 1891, at Iron Mountain; "breeds in British America" (Dr. A. K. 

 Fisher); " eo far as we know breeds north of the United States" (H. Nehrling); "this 

 and the preceding species breeds far north of us " (Prof. J. A. Allen). 



109-24 3a-(624). Tringa alpina pacifica Coves. Red-backed Sandpiper; Black- 

 bellied Sandpiper; American Dunlin. 

 " Migrant, not common, few taken in spring" (Dr. M. Gibbs); "breeds in Sanilac 

 county " (W. A. Oldfield); "one bird taken at Plymouth in the spring of 1S91" (J. B. 

 Purdy); "Allegan county, migrating May 25, 1891 " (S. E. White, O. and O., Vol. 16, p. 

 9); "migrant" (Dr. J. B. Steere); prized for food. 



110-244^(625). Tringa ferrnginea Brunn. Curlew Sandpiper. 



Very rare visitor; one taken by the late D. D. Hughes; reported in the catalogue of 

 Kent Scientific institute by E. L. Moseley. 



Genus EREUNETBS III. 



lll-246-(612). Erennetes pusillns (Linn.). Semipalmated Sandpiper. 



Common; "throughout the state" (A.H.Boies); migrant; "rare in Monroe Co." 

 (Jerome Trombley); "taken as late as June and as early as August" (Dr. M. Gibbs); 

 "Mackinac Island" (S.E.White); "Keweenaw Point" (Kneeland); "shore of Lake 

 Michigan during August " (Butler's Birds of Indiana). 



