P. DeBenedictis 1965 Calidris pusillus 24 July Bayou, Alabama - There were at least two pairs which acted like they had young - high flight and distraction displays - near lines IIIA-B and 3-5 birds in with a group of golden Plover that I judged to be migrants. Additionally 2 or 3 others were seen along the road to the gare and near west 7. Checked Nest 19 in the evening - Beggs, the pair probably present. Surprisingly there were a lot - at least 3 and probly 5-6 pairs in the flat site to bro-center polygonized area across (east of) VOTH Creek from the VOTH area. All acted as if they had young and eventually two well grown chicks were scared up and one captured and examined. It was down on the body that the flight feathers, and their coverts and some scapulars held were projecting a 1/4 inch from the sheath and the legs were not obviously "too large" for the bird. Those adults were in this area. I wonder if adults that lose their chicks don't try to adopt another pair's chicks if they happen to come across them soon after the loss - at any rate these large chicks were clearly being tended by two birds and a fluid was interested. Elsewhere the solicitous semipalmated adults seem were all paired. The chick were in a wet, gummy 3-centered polygon when found and most adults seem were in similar areas though often near the moister troughs. 25 July All birds seem were in the VOTH area; they clearly are a kind of coastal areas.