C. IT. Merrhnii — Blnh of Cotitiecticut. 10 7 



196. Tringa canutUS Linne. Red-breasted Sandpiper ; Knot. 



Common during miiiiation^. Taken at 8ayl)i-ook, by Mr. Sage, 

 Aug. 21st, 1S74; and Mr. Coe tells me that it is found about the 

 Connecticut Kiver, near JMiddletown, in summer. 



Note. — The Stilt Sand[ii])er, JMicrajxihinta IiinKnttojuix (liona]).) 

 IJaird ; and Baird''s 8and))i|)er, TriiKja Jidirdi! Coues, doubtless 

 occur along the coast during migrations. 



197. Calidris arenaria (Linm) Illiger. Sanderling. 



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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

 there, and ai'e very good pastime in August."* 



1 98. Limosa fedoa (Linni'O Ord. Great Marbled Godwit. 



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

 1842, "in large flocks, but very shy."f Nearly an hundred years ago, 

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

 Hudson's Bay and Connecticut.''^ 



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



A rare migrant. Taken at Stratford by Linsley. Coues suggests 

 that the Limosa Edwdrdsilf of Linsley (p. 267) is "])erhaps an 

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

 i^Reeurvirostra Aniericann).\ The good old preacher (Linsley), in 

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

 slight a provocation — hence he called them " 6^oO(?wits." 



* New English Canaan, p. 47, 1(532. Reprinted in Force's Historical Tracts, vol. ii, 

 Tract 5. 



f Am. Jonr. Sci. and Arts, vol. xliv. No. 2, p. 2G7, 184:^. 



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



§ List of the Birds of New England. {). 4 8, ISCS. 



II Arctic Zoolog}^, vol. ii, p. 502, 1785. 



