138 REPOET OF NEW JERSEY STATE MUSEUM. 



Mile Beach May 21st, 1898, and one at Beach Haven August 9th, 

 1902. Mr. C. S. Shick^ states that the Willets were still breeding on 

 the salt marshes adjoining Seven Mile Beach in 1889, when he took 

 two sets of eggs on Gull Island. 



Dr. W. L. Abbott, on Five Mile Beach, took only two of these birds 

 May 15th, 1877, and September 14th, 1880, and Mr. Laurent,^ writing 

 of the same spot in 1892, says a few are seen in spring and fall. 



On the bay side of the Cape May peninsula they also bred, and a 

 nest is recorded by Mr. C. E. Bellows,^ which was taken May 19th, 

 1884, near the Warner House, on Delaware Bay. 



The last capture of the bird that we know of in this vicinity was 

 one obtained by Mr. W. R. Wharton, October 8th. 1904, near Salem, 

 and presented to Mr. F. L. Burns.* 



260 Machetes pugnax (Linnagus). 

 Ruff. 



Adult male.— Length, 10-12.50. Wing, 6.40. Mottled above, black, buff and 

 gray, long pendant feathers forming a cape and extended "ruff ;" these are 

 varied — glossy black, white, buff or mottled, differing in each individual ; under 

 parts, white, varied with black. 



Female without "cape" or "ruff;" upper parts barred, black, white and buff; 

 below, white. 



Young dusky above, edged with buff ; breast, buff ; abdomen, white. 



Accidental straggler from Europe. 



Mr. Chapman^ records one in the Elliott collection in the American 

 Museum collection labeled "Barnegat, N. J.," and Turnbull mentions 

 one secured on the New Jersey coast. ' 



, 261 Bartramia longicauda (Bechstein). 



Upland Plover, Field Plover. 



PLATE 22. 



Adults. — Length, 11-12.75. Wing, 6.50-7. Head and neck streaked black 

 and buff ; back, etc., barred with the same ; wings and middle tail feathers, 

 brownish ; outer primary barred with white, rest of tail feathers, white and 

 buff, barred with black ; under parts, buff, becoming white on the belly. 



^ Auk, 1890, p. 328. 



= O. and O., 1892, p. 53. 



=> Forest and Stream, XXII., p. 364. 



* Wilson, Bulletin, 1905, p. 27. 



'' Birds Vicinity N. Y., p. 40. 



