Order CHARADRIIFORMES. Family CHARADRllDM. 
No. 61. 
HETEROSCELUS INCANUS. 
WAND E RING TATTLER. 
Mathews, Birds of Australia, Vol. III., pt. 3, p. 211, pi. 152, August 18th, 1913. 
At the place given above I did not know of the nest and eggs of this 
species. But in the Auk, Vol. XLI., No. 2, April, 1924, pp. 231-235, pis. 
xvi.-xviii., Mr. Olaus J. Muric gives this information :— 
On June 1st, 1922, I was hunting for grizzlies in the Alaska Range at 
the head of Delta River, and while coming down Phelan Creek, saw a dull 
slate-coloured bird fly by and perch on a rock at the edge of the tur¬ 
bulent water, at some distance ... a Wandering Tattler, which I had not 
expected to find high in the mountains. 
This species was not observed again until July 9th in the same year, 
when the first evidence of nesting was found. This was on Jennie Creek, 
a small tributary of Savage River, in another part of the Alaska Range. 
On that date a downy young was collected . . . The adult was not collected 
for several days, in the hope of finding more young, but on the 16th this 
bird, which proved to be a male, was taken. I had seen the bird a number 
of times before the young one was found. Whenever I came near it the 
parent met me, scolding from a perch on a rock, driftwood stump, or the 
bare limb of a tall willow. Finally, on the date mentioned, I spied the 
little grey youngster running away over the gravel bar. 
A few days later two more adults were seen on upper Savage River and 
one on Sanctuary River, a stream running parallel with the Savage. 
In the summer of 1923 work was resumed hi the Savage River district. 
• • • On June 3rd, during a hasty visit to the place, three different Wandering 
Tattlers were observed along the gravel bars. All scolded at my approach 
and I hunted enthusiastically for nests, but found none. In one instance 
after a period of excited scolding the bird rose high in the air and flew 
away to some distant point. I concluded that there were probably no nests 
and that the birds were merely interested in a prospective nesting site. 
The following day I saw another bird in Jennie Creek as I returned to 
Fairbanks. 
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