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Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, Aug. 20, 1902. 

 Latest record. Oct. 20, 1902. 



Spring record. May 13, 1878, Saybrook, one male taken by 

 H. W. F. (in coll. of Brewster). 



Inland record. Sept. 12, 1894, one male taken at East Hart- 

 ford by W. E. T. (in coll. of J. H. S.). 



Linsley took it at Stratford. Merriam^ says it " occurs during 

 migrations, and is extremely abundant in fall." 



Limosa fedoa (Linnaeus). Marbled Godwit. 



Connecticut records. Aug., 1842, Stratford, an adult female 

 (?) (Linsley, in coll. of Bpt. Sci. Soc.) ; Aug. 26, 1909, West 

 Haven, adult female shot by Wm. Ganung (in coll. of L. B. B.). 



Limosa haemastica (Linnaeus). Hudsonian Godwit. 



Connecticut records. Stratford (Linsley- and E. H. Austin).^ 



On page 178 in the copy of Nuttall's Ornithology (Water 

 Birds) owned by the late Dr. J. Barratt, of Middletown, Conn., 

 is the following marginal note, in his handwriting, relating to 

 this species : " A pair shot by Jenkins Oct. 25, 1845 — these were 

 bought by me and set up." (J. H. S.) 



Oct. 30, 1852, Lyme, taken by Jno. C. Comstock (MS. Journal 

 of Jno. C. Comstock, J. H. S.) ; Oct. 11, 1897, Little River 

 Marshes, Middletown, one shot by L. E. King (in coll. of J. 

 H. S.). 



Totanus melanoleucus (Gmelin). Greater Yellow-legs. 



A tolerably common spring and more common fall migrant, 

 but becoming rarer at both seasons. 



Spring migration. Earliest record. New Haven, April 21, 

 1897; Portland, May 3, 1893. Latest record. New Haven, June 

 4, 1900; Portland, June 5, 1882; Litchfield, June 9, 1905 

 (E. S. W.). 



Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, Sept. 3, 1886; 

 Portland, Sept. 24, 1881. Latest record. New Haven, Nov. 3, 

 1906; Portland, Oct. 27, 1894. 



Unusual records. March 25, 1893, West Haven (L. C. S.) ; 

 Nov. 22, 1895, West Haven, wounded bird (A. H. V.) ; July, 



iMerriam, Birds of Conn., p. 107. 



«Am. Jour, of Sci. and Arts, [i] xliv, 2, p. 267. 



^Averill, Birds of Bridgeport, p. 8. 



