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would be slowly raised and lowered like a pump handle, generally lowered to 

 right angles with the forearms, sometimes lower. Not a sound was uttered. ' ' On 

 May 31 the present author witnessed a similar silent courtship at Griffin Point, 

 Alaska. 





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Fig. 27. Eggs of the Baird Sandpiper, natural size. Set secured by 

 W. S. Brooks at Demarcation Point, Alaska, June 12, 1914. 





Fig. 28. Eggs of the Baird Sandpiper, natural size. Set secured by 

 W. S. Brooks at Demarcation Point, Alaska, June 14, 1914. 



All of the nests of the Baird Sandpiper which I have examined were near 

 the coast and placed on dry, well drained tundra, away from the immediate vicin- 

 ity of ponds. Murdock, at Point Barrow, Brooks, at Demarcation Point, and An- 

 derson at various points along the Arctic Coast, have all noted this same nesting 



