Birds of Indiana. 745 



Nest, a hollow in ground,, lined with grass. Eggs, 3-4; greenish- 

 drab, spotted all over with brown; 1.60 by 1.17. 



Eare migrant. Except along Lake Michigan it is almost unknown. 

 There are but two records from the interior of the State. Dr. Hay- 

 mond observed it in Franklin County (Ind. Geol. Eept. 1869, p. 328). 

 May 30, 1888, Mr. Euthven Deane observed it in Starke County. 

 Messrs. Eliot Blackwelder and C. A. Tallman identified two Turn- 

 stones at Wolf Lake, Ind., May 33, 1896; two were also seen there 



Bill of Turnstone. 



June 9 of that year. August 8, 1897, Mr. P. M. WoodrufE took two in 

 breeding plumage at Miller's, and August 31 took a young male at the 

 same place. Nelson has noted them in Cook County, 111., about Sep- 

 tember 30. 



They may be said, therefore, to be found in the vicinity of Lake 

 Michigan through the latter half of May and the first third of June, 

 and from early August until about the middle of September. In the 

 fall, at least, they are generally found with flocks of small Sandpipers. 



They breed far northward along the coast of the Arctic Ocean and 

 in Alaska. Mr. Geo. B. Sennott found them on the coast of Texas 

 during the breeding season. (Bull. IT. S. G. & G. Sur. of Terr.; Vol. 

 V, No. 3, 1879, p. 431). 



Mr. E. A. McIUienny says it is an abundant resident on the coast of 

 Louisiana (The Auk, Vol. XIV, 1897, p. 389). Do those only wlio 

 are to breed make the long journey beyond the Arctic Circle, or does 

 this bird breed sometimes on our southern coast? Mr. Mcllhenny 

 has stated that several other species previously supposed to spend tlic 

 summer far north are summer residents of the Louisiana coast. 



