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 140 THE CONDOR [ Vol. IV Grus canadensis (Linn.).--In the vicinity of Fallax Point and Castle Peak I often saw flocks of cranes, which were undoubtedly of this species. Phalaropus lobatus (Linn.).--Specimens of this phalarope were taken at Golof- nin Bay, June 28, and again August 7- Two were collected at Fallax Point, August 24, where they were abundant. Their stomachs contained quantities of entomos- tracans, legs and elytra of black and striped beetles, small green seeds, and slender grubs a quarter of an inch in length. An individual was seen on the water at Thor, August 25, and several were seen in the ponds near Crater Mountain, July ii. Gallins. go delicata (Ord).---The Wilson snipe was observed near a creek flow- ing into Golofnin Bay and again the same day in some marshy ground, on a hill side, some ten miles east of Dexter. Both were seen August i6. Tringa couesi (Ridgw.).--The Coues sandpiper was obtained only on Egg Island September 24, although it may have been seen before. Tringa ptilocnemis Coues.--Of this sandpiper I have three examples. The first one was taken on Pathfinder Rock July 17. August 29, another was shot from a bunch of three as they flew over the hills back of Dexter. The third was taken the same day in company with a pectoral sandpiper. These two were feed- ing on the beach in the evening. It was so dark I could just see them, it being then 8:i 5 P.M. Tringa maculata Vieill.--A single male of this species was taken on the beach near Dexter, August 29. Ereunetes pusillus (Linn.).--Two semipalmated sandpipers were taken at Gol- ofnin Bay June 28. Numenius huds0nicus Lath.--My record for this species is based upon part of a bird which was being eaten by a young duck hawk when the latter was shot. Charadrius dominicus fulvus (Gmel.).--Since Bishop x gives this form as occur- ring at St. Michael, the golden plover seen by me in the hills above Cape Den- bigh, July 30, and near Signal Doris, are probably the same. They were seen only on high ground a mile or two from the bay. Egialitis semipalmata Bonap.--A male of this species was taken at Golofnin Bay, June 28. Arenaria interpres (Linn.).--Two turnstones were secured at Golofnin Bay the latter part of August. Canachites canadensis (Linn.).--Grouse were first seen on August i8 at Cairn. They were abundant in the spruce woods a mile or so from the beach, and were usually found in flocks comprising one or two adults and three to six young. Oc- casionally an old bird was seen without any company. The young were in vari- ous stages of plumage, from those just able to fly to fully feathered. ArThot only a few miles away two half grown birds were shot August 28. In the left pectoral muscle of one specimen was an encysted body half an inch long by a quarter of an inch in diameter. This body contained three pieces of spruce needles measuring respectively .45, .3, and .24 of an ich. These grouse when flushed usually flew but a short distance to light in the lower branches of a tree or in plain sight on the tundra. It was then an easy matter to collect the whole flock without moving more than a few feet. In fact so tame were they that one of our men killed an old bird with his hatchet. My specimens appear to be of the same form as those collected by Grinnell on the K. owak. x. N.A. FaunaNo.9;Bds. of Yukon Dist., p. 7 o.