C. II. Merriam — Birds of Connecticut. 101 



196. Trillga carmtUS Linne. Red- breasted Sandpiper ; Knot. 

 Common during migrations, Taken at Saybrook, by Mr. Sage, 



Auo-. 21st, 1874; and Mr. Coe tells me that it is found about the 

 Connecticut River, near Middletown, in summer. 



Note. — The Stilt Sandpiper, Micropalama himantopus (Bonap.) 

 Baird ; and Baird's Sandpiper, Tringa B<iir<l!i Coues, doubtless 

 occur along the coast during migrations. 



197. Calidris arenaria (Linne) Illiger. Sanderling. 



Occurs during migrations, and is extremely abundant in fall. Lins- 

 ley took it at Stratford. Mr. Grinned informs me that they arrive 

 during the latter part of September, remaining late into October. 

 Thomas Morton wrote of them in 1632 : "Sanderlings are dainty bird, 

 more full bodied than a Snipe, and I was much delighted to feede 

 on them, because they were fatt, and easie to come by, because I 

 went but a stepp or to for them: and I have killed betweene foure 



and five dozen at a si t which would lead me home. Their foode is 



at ebbing water on the sands, of small seeds, that grows on weeds 

 there, and are very good pastime in August."* 



198. Limosa fedoa (Linne) Ord. Great Marbled Godwit. 



A rare migrant. Linsley found it at Stratford. Conn., in August, 

 1842, "in large flocks, hut very shy."t Nearly an hundred years ago, 

 Thomas Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, stated that "it inhabits 

 Hudson's Bay and Connecticut. "J 



199. Limosa Hudsonica (Latham) Swainson. Uudsouian Godwit. 

 Araremigrant. Taken at Stratford by Linsley. Coues suggests 



that the Limosa Edwardsii? of Linsley (p. 207) is "perhaps an 

 albino "§ of this species, but Pennant thought it was the Avocet 

 (fieeurvirostra Americanu).\ The good old preacher (Linsley), in 

 speaking of these birds, could not take his Lord's name in vain on so 

 slight a provocation— hence he called them " Goo^wits." 



* New English Canaan, p. 47, 1632. Reprinted in Force's Historical Tracts, vol. ii, 

 Tract 5. 



f Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, vol. xliv, No. 2, p. 267, 1843. 



% Arctic Zoology, vol. ii, p. 465, 1785. 



§ List of the Birds of New England, p. 48, 1868. 



|| Arctic Zoology, vol. ii, p. 502, 1785. 



