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117 [260] Pavoncella pugnax (Linn.). 

 Ruff. 



Accidental visitor from the Old World. 



An adult female with active ovaries was taken in the Newburyport marshes 

 on May 20th, 1871.^ 



Howe and Allen ^ give only one other record for the State : a bird taken at 

 Chatham, on September 12th, 1880. 



118 [261] Bartramia longicauda (Bechst.). 



Bartramian Sandpiper; "Upland Plover"; "Pasture Plover." 



Very rare spring, not uncommon autumn transient visitor ; (summer) ; 

 April 3 to May 7 (July 2, July 9) ; July 16 to September i. 



My only spring records are April 3d, 1904, one seen by Mr. T. C. Wilson ; 

 April 1 2th, 1876, one reported by Newcomb^; May 7th, 1896, one in the collec- 

 tion of the Boston Society of Natural History, taken by N. Vickary at Ipswich. 

 The bird formerly bred in Essex County and may have done so in recent years. 

 According to Mr. Otis Ingalls, of Ipswich, two or three pairs used to breed some 

 35 or 40 years ago in a pasture on Crooked-lane Hill, in Hamilton. Mr. Ingalls 

 is perfectly familiar with the bird, having shot many. Mr. T. C. Wilson tells me 

 that a pair was killed in Ipswich on July 2d, some seven or eight years ago. I 

 heard an Upland Plover fly over the hills near the beach at Ipswich, on July 9th, 

 1904, and Mr. Wilson had seen a bird of this species several times that summer. 

 Confirming these observations, Mr. E. M. Haskell tells me that he has seen an 

 Upland Plover about his farm at Ipswich during the summer of 1904 since July 

 1st. On July 7th, and for several days after, he saw three birds. They were 

 very tame, and he went within twenty-five yards of one. This certainly suggests 

 young or breeding birds and may explain the spring record for this same year. 

 Only breeding adults and very young birds are tame, adults under other circum- 

 stances being always extremely wary. 



1 Wm. Brewster : Amer. Nat., vol. 6, p. 306, 1872. 



2 R. H. Howe, Jr., and G. M. Allen ; The Birds of Massachusetts, p. 38, 1901. 

 ' R. L. Newcomb : Forest and Stream, vol. 6, p. 417, 1876. 



