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Mr. E. Adams on the Birds of Michalaski. 
of the Diminutive Sandpiper. They built their nests on the 
higher ground surrounding the marsh. They were very often 
hovering over their nests and singing a low twittering song. 
The nest was merely a few dry leaves scraped into a slight 
hollow. The eggs^ four in number^ are spotted with large 
spots of three shades of brown upon a light olive-green ground; 
the spots principally collected about the larger end. The 
small ends were always placed together in the nest^ as with 
all the Waders. 
4- Diminutive Sandpiper. Tringa pimlla. 
Lub-e-lub~e-luk‘uk, Cloo-me-dr, Eski. 
{^Actodromus minutillus^ Dali & Bann. p. 292.] 
The first of these birds I met with as early as the 14th of 
Aprils while the snow yet covered the greater part of the 
surface of the ground; but it was not till the beginning of 
the following month that they became numerous. They 
almost solely confined themselves to the salt marsh and the 
muddy banks of the river where it was under the influence 
of the tide; here they were always to be found in flocks of 
fifty or a hundred^ accompanied by a few Dunlins and Brown 
Snipes. I often sat on a log whilst they were feeding all 
around within a foot of me j but on my making the slightest 
movement_, they were gone with a whisk and a twitter in an 
instant. Their nests were placed in the same situations as 
those of the Dunlins. The eggs are spotted with shades of 
olive-green_, principally about the large end^ upon a pale 
brownish ground. 
yn Hudsonian Godwit. lAmosa hudsonica, 
Pe-pe-pe~ukj Eski. 
[Limosa hudsonica, Dali & Bann. p. 293.] 
A few of these birds frequented the marshes on the river- 
banks, to which they exclusively confined themselves, feeding 
upon the numerous worms. The first I met with were feed¬ 
ing in some shallow pools, on the 21st of May. 
My specimens agree well with Sir J. Bichardson^s descrip¬ 
tions, except that the female had no rufous colour on the 
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