226 SCOLOPACID^ : SNIPE, ETC. 



In 1870, Mr. C. J. Maynard speaks of "a few speci- 

 mens taken on our Massachusetts coast," but gives no 

 particulars. (Naturalists' Guide, 1870, p. 140.) 



In 1875, Dr. T. M. Brewer makes the following 

 remark: "This is an P2uropean species, of rare and acci- 

 dental occurrence in America. Up to the present time 

 no authenticated instance was on record of a single 

 specimen having been taken in any part of New Eng- 

 land. It had been given on the strength of three 

 individuals taken at St. Andrews, N. B., on the St. 

 Croix, and within a few miles of the Maine line. A 

 single individual has recently been taken at Ipswich, 

 Mass., and the same is now in the collection of Ray- 

 mond Newcomb, of Salem (Pr. Bost. Soc, xvii, 1875, 

 p. 446)." This ignores Mr. Samuels' record, and dis- 

 credits Mr. Maynard's remarks.* The New Brunswick 

 examples mentioned are those adduced by Mr. G. A. 

 Boardman as of Maine (Pr. Bost. Soc, ix, 1862, p. 128). 



In 1876, Mr. Wm. Brewster, in a note entitled "Oc- 

 currence of the Curlew Sandpiper in Massachusetts," 

 gives the following account : " Mr. Charles I. Goodale, 

 an accomplished Boston taxidermist, has a fine Curlew 

 Sandpiper {Tringa stibarqiiatd) which was sent to him to 

 be mounted. It was shot in East Boston, Mass., early 

 in May, 1876, as it was feeding on a sand-spit among 

 a flock of 'peeps.' This bird, in very perfect spring 

 plumage, furnishes the second authentic instance of the 

 occurrence of this species in New England." (Bull. 

 Nutt, Club, i, 1876, p. 51.) In calling it the "second 



* Another example of confusion on the part of this writer is 

 found in Pr. Bost. Soc, xix, 1878, p. 307, where Dr. Brewer records 

 the Scarboro' specimen of Actodromas bairdi (mentioned above, 

 p. 218) as one oi Ancylochilus subarquatus. 



