438 Semi-palmtated Sandpiper O 1931 June 3. Cape Etolin, Nomwak S. Alaska These small sandpipers are common on the damp tundra & around the swamps & lakes. - Performing courtship antics - Pair off & fly around each other often sailing slowly to ground on motionless wings held almost vertical. When on the ground they often utter a soft strident chatter with rolled ts. - Took a specimen & identified it by its partially webbed feet. Point Hope, Alaska, Arctic Ocean Aug 5. Tigar. Saw a small flock of a dozens or so feeding in very wet grass. Took one. No 1820 Aug 11. these little Sandpipers seemed to be as much at home on the sand & gravel of lagoon & seashore as on the damp grass of the tundra. On a very foggy windy night I saw many flocks in the tundra & around the lagoons. They are nervous little birds, starting up in swift zigzag flight at some imaginary danger, & then settling down to feed as if nothing