Harrison F. Lewis

The Mourning Dove in Newfoundland

Two Records of the Stilt Sandpiper.--In looking over my collection I find two specimens of Stilt Sandpiper (Micropalama himantopus). The first of these, No. 278, I took in a slough a little north of Burlington, Iowa, September 28, 1889. It was shot while feeding in the shallow water of this, then rapidly drying, slough. On September 16, 1917, while returning to Washington through the Shenandoah Valley, we passed a cattle pool by the roadside a little east of Berryville, Virginia, in which a number of Least and SemipMmated Sandpipers were feeding and one bird revealed his identity and recalled my 1889 experience by immersing his head below the water in his quest for food. Having a little collecting gun aboard, we added the specimen to our collection, where it is now No. 2170. This is the only sandpiper that I have met with which systematically fishes for food by ducking below the surface of the water.--PAvL BARTSCS, U.S. National Museum.