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lished) saw six birds on Round Island on 27 June 1976, and P. D. Amcson 

 and D. B. McDonald (personal communication) found birds at Hagemeis- 

 ter Island on 9 July 1977. 



Least sandpiper (Calidris minuHlla). Usr, FCfm (10 May-3 Septem- 

 ber). Specimens: RMS 1962/36/1 3 and UAM2646. 



Least sandpipers migrate through and probably nest in the Kilbuck 

 Mountains, and nest and migrate along the coast. This sandpiper probably 

 nested inland at the Tuluksak River and nested along the coast at Nanvak 

 Bay, Cape Peirce, and possibly Goodnews and Chagvan bays. It also 

 nested on Crooked Island in 1977 (P. D. Ameson and D. B. McDonald, 

 personal communication). Territorial pairs, nests, and broods were in 

 wet meadows adjacent to estuarine and lacustrine waters from sea level 

 to 360 m asl. At Cape Peirce and Nanvak Bay, we found pairs performing 

 territorial displays on 12 May- 19 June and copulating on 17 May; we 

 found eggs in nests between 26 May- 20 June. D. R. Herter and D. Lloyd 

 (personal communication) found eggs in nests there on 19 June and 1- to 

 4-day-old chicks on 25 June and 3 July 1981; J. G. King (unpublished) 

 found a nest there with four eggs on 5 July 1964; D. R. Herter et al. 

 (personal communication) found a brood of two young on 19 June 1984. 

 Adults generally left their breeding areas at Cape Peirce and Nanvak Bay 

 by mid-July, and juveniles left by early to mid-August. 



Sandpipers were seen in "swampy areas near tidal inlets" at Chagvan 

 Bay on 21-24 May 1987 (D. F. Parmelee and J. M. Parmelee, unpublished). 

 Inland on the Tuluksak River, one to three pairs probably nested at each 

 marshy pond in wet meadows near or above timberline (250 and 36O m 

 asl). Least sandpipers were at the Kisaralik River on 17 June 1987 (B. J. 

 McCaffery, personal communication) and at the Eek River on 18-25 June 

 1985 (M. Brown et al., unpublished). 



Fall migrants passed inland along the Tuluksak and Kisaralik rivers 

 between 1 5 and 30 July each year and were found at Togiak Lake and the 

 Togiak River on 3~5 August 1973- In 1985, M. Brown et al. (unpublished) 

 found them at the Kisaralik River on 8-17 August and at the Kwethluk 

 River on 12, and 23-27 July. Few migrant least sandpipers were found 

 along the coastal portion of the study area; P. D. Ameson and D. B. 

 McDonald (personal communication) saw a bird at Hagemeister Island 

 on 10 July 1977, and we saw an immature bird at Cape Peirce on 3 

 September 1973. 



Baird's sandpiper (Calidris bairdit). VRspm, VRfm. Specimen: 

 UAM3118. 



We saw Baird's sandpipers at Nanvak Bay on 14 August 1970 (one 

 bird) and on 6 and 8 September 1973 (one and four birds, respectively). 



