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 80 THE CONDOR Vol. XIX 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. Fig. 27. EGOS OF THE BAIRD SANDPIPER, NATURAL SIZE. SET SECURED BY W. S. BROOKS AT DE.fARCATION POINT, ALASKA, JUNE 12, 1914. Fig. 28. E(s OF THE BAIRD SANDPIPER, NATURAL SIZE. SET SECURED BY W. S. BROOKS AT DEMARCATION POINT, ALASKA, JU-E 14, 1914. All of the nests of the Baird Sandpiper which I hve 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