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month of May. Dr. Hatch in his first list in 1874, stated that it was “rather rare; 
arrives about the first of May and shortly passes on to the north to breed and 
in his Notes, 1892, recorded it as both a summer and autumn bird, but this latter 
account is vague and conflicting and can not be taken seriously. 
The Survey files contain the following records: Four seen near Detroit, Becker 
County, in May, 1883, by Foster H. Bracket; a specimen, now in the state collection 
at Albany, New York, taken by Barker at Parker’s Prairie, Otter Tail County, 
from a flock in the early nineties; a specimen in the Minnesota survey collection 
taken at Lake Minnetonka, May 24, 1888, by Albert Lano; four specimens taken 
from a flock in company with Sandpipers near Madison, Lac qui Parle County, 
on May 24, 1889, by Cantwell; “a flock of about eight—one bird secured—seen 
on May 24, 1895, on the margin of a stony lake about seven miles northeast of 
southern Heron Lake” by Peabody; a single bird seen at Leech Lake, May 24, 
1903, by Currier; and a specimen in the survey collection taken at Spirit Island, 
Lake Mille Lacs, on June 22, 1915, by T. S. Roberts. The latter is the only definite 
summer record. The bird was a female, apparently living alone on the rocky 
islet and showing no evidence of nesting. Mr. J. M. Eheim, in Fins, Feathers and 
Fur, for June, 1918, reports seeing six of these birds near Hutchinson, McLeod 
County, on May 26 '°18, and that they were “common” the following day. If 
correct, this was a most exceptional occurrence. The above is all the information 
in regard to the Turnstone in Minnesota known to the writer. 
The summer home of the Turnstone is on the coasts and islands of the Arctics 
and its winter abiding place from the southern United States to Brazil and Chili. 
NOTE.—Fault may be found by some critical readers of this article with the 
quite general omission of specific references to the published sources of records 
given—especially in the section on shore birds. Also it may not always be clear 
whether the notes are from the literature or from unpublished records in the 
files of the Survey. The answer is that the inclusion of the large number of 
explanatory references required would have added greatly to the length and com¬ 
plexity of the text, and been of very little interest to the class of readers for 
whom the paper was primarily prepared. A recent publication by the author 
entitled, “A Review of the Ornithology of Minnesota,” contains an annotated bibli¬ 
ography that will furnish a clue to practically all of the Minnesota bird literature 
here drawn upon. Inquiries from anyone interested in any particular matter will 
receive ready attention if addressed to the author at the Animal Biology Building, 
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn. Corrections of statements made in 
this paper or additional information in regard to the water birds of Minnesota 
will be most gratefully received, as it is desired to make the files of the Survey 
Museum as accurate and complete as possible. 
