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instance, however," Mr. Brewster appears to have been 

 misled by Dr. Brewer's note above quoted. It was 

 really the third. 



In 1877, Mr. C. H. Merriam comes forward with 

 a specially interesting and valuable notice of the Curlew 

 Sandpiper in Connecticut. (Rev. B. Conn., p. io6.) We 

 transcribe it in full : " A rare visitor along our coast. Mr. 

 Josiah G. Ely writes me that one was shot near Say- 

 brook, many years ago, and I am informed by Dr. D. 

 Crary, of Hartford, that a specimen of this specieswas 

 killed, Oct. 3, 1859, at Keeny's Cove, on the Connecti- 

 cut River, in East Hartford (Hockanum), Conn. Also, 

 Dr. E. L. R. Thompson, of this city, tells me that he 

 shot three Curlew Sandpipers on the Quinnipiac River 

 (near New Haven) in June, 1874. Dr. Wm. O. Ayres, 

 now of Easthampton, Long Island, writes me that he 

 'killed it once at Miller's Place, L. I., in 1839,' ^^^d it 

 has also been taken in Massachusetts." Aside from the 

 Long Island instance, this gives us three occurrences, 

 of five specimens, for Connecticut alone. 



In 1879, Mr. R. Deane gives "Additional Captures of 

 the Curlew Sandpiper in New England " (Bull. Nutt. 

 Club, iv, 1879, p. 124): "The three * specimens of this 

 rare straggler, which have been previously recorded as 

 occurring in New England, have all been collected in 

 Massachusetts, and I am enabled to add two more 

 instances, both of which have been taken in this State. 

 Mr. John Fottler, Jr., writes me that he has in his pos- 



* The "three" here meant are those above noted, viz. : Samuels' 

 Cape Ann one, Brewer's Ipswich one, and Brewster's East Boston 

 one. This makes Deane's two additional examples the fourth and 

 fifth ; but as he overlooks Merriam's record, his specimens are 

 really the ninth and tenth. 



