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1890. Witmer Stone, Auk, 1891, p. 245. "One bird in 

 immature plumage obtained from a gunner who shot it with 

 Reed birds on Maurice River, New Jersey, September 18. Now 

 in the collection of W. L. Baily, Philadelphia, Pa. ' ' 



Stone, Birds Eastern Pa. & N. J., 1894, p. 421. "Twenty 

 years ago this was a common species in certain parts of New 

 Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania, though always of local distri- 

 bution." 



