Page:Condor19(3).djvu/6

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