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thologist was in Sufifield, Conn, and West Bridgwater, Mass. 

 In giving the work for this period I have considered it best to 

 take up the various famiUes of North American birds and point 

 out anything that may be of interest. Suffield, West Suf- 

 field, and Enfield, Conn., are located in that part of Connecti- 

 cut where the Connecticut River enters the state from Mas- 

 sachusetts, and his work sometimes carried him across the line 

 into Massachusetts, besides he made several trips to Rhode 

 Island. This naturally makes his list of water and shorebirds 

 very small. 



RECORDS. 

 Order Pygopodes. 

 The record for the Dovekie (Alle alle) has already been given. 

 The only other one worth mentioning is from West Bridgwater, 

 Mass., on November 1, 1882, two $$ juveniles, of Gavia stellata, shot 

 in PljTnouth, Mass., on October 28, 1882, and presented to him in 

 the flesh by Chas. Thayer. 



Order Longipennes. 

 Most of the records for the birds of this order are from Hamp- 

 ton, Va., and are for birds we naturally would expect to meet there. 

 Of the Massachusetts records there is one of interest, a specimen 

 of the Parasitic Jaeger (Stercorarius parasiticus), a 5 juvenile, 

 shot at Plymouth, Mass.,, on October 22, 1884, and presented to him 

 in the flesh by F. Mitchell. 



Order Anseres. 

 Not many records for ducks and geese are given. He only got 

 one specimen of the Wood Duck (Aix spojisa) on October 26, 1880, 

 at West Bridgwater, Mass., and states that its crop had two large 

 acorns and its gizzard was full of cracked acorns, small stones and 

 sand. His record for the Blue-winged Teal is April 21, 1876, at 

 Suffield, and occasionally he mentions finding the Black Duck. The 

 other specimens were obtained mostly in the Boston markets and 

 taken in that neighborhood. 



Order Herodiones. 

 He mentions the Great Blue Heron as fairly common, the Bit- 

 tern as not nearly so common, the Green Heron as common, the fol- 

 lowing stomach contents being noted: One (^ shot August 6, 1879, 

 had a frog and a mass of crickets and grasshoppers in his stomach, 

 one $ on August 11, 1879, had a mass of water-beetles in her stom- 

 ach. Of the Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax n. naevius). 



