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Totanus melanolmcus. Yellow-legs. 



Mr. Morris reports these birds as very scarce at present at 

 Bristol and seen only in northeast storms. About 1883 they 

 were plentiful and as many as a dozen were shot in a single 

 morning. Two were seen near the mouth of Pensaviken creek 

 by Mr. Stone, May 30, 1897. Mr. Miller reports one seen May 

 6, 1902, at Bridesburg and one shot May 5, 1901, on the Pen- 

 sauken creek, N. J. Mr. Ernest Schluter shot one November 

 9, 1897, at League Island, a remarkably late date. 

 Oxyechus vociferics. Kilkleer Plover. 



One taken August 6, 1894, at Holmesburg. Seen occasionally 

 during rainy weather in fall when they seem to prefer soaked or 

 wet grass land. Mr. Miller regards it as a common summer 

 resident and furnishes the following dates : Arrivals, May 8, 

 1897; March 12, 1898; April 15, 1899; April 16, 1900; April 

 23, 1902; February 28, 1903. Departures, November 7, 1898; 

 October 21, 1903. He states further that a pair bred at Sandi- 

 ford, Philadelphia, in 1903, and at Bridesburg another pair 

 succeeded in raising a brood of three, but the whole family was 

 subsequently shot by gunners. 



Charadrius dominicus. Golden Plover. 



Mr. Morris reports one from Butcher's Point about 1895 and 

 they were plentiful at Bristol about 1870. I have never observed 

 the species. 



Actodromas mmutilla. Least Sandpiper. 

 Rare. Several seen August 16, 1897, at Greenwich Point, 

 Philadelphia, and a flock of twenty-five or thirty on August 7, 

 1898, at Bridesburg. 



Aclitis macularia. Spotted Sandpiper. 



Common summer resident. Breeds. Have recorded it from 

 April 27 to October 13. Mr. Miller gives the following dates of 

 migration: Arrivals, April 24, 1897; April 18, 1898; April 29, 

 1899; April 30, 1900, and 1901; April 25, 1902; May 8, 1903. 

 Departures, August 26, 1897 ; August 12, 1898 ; August 20, 

 1900; September 1, 1903. 



