34 Birps oF MASSACHUSETTS 
4 
Rare in spring, sometimes common in August and September. Cohas- 
set: “ Abundant in fall, common in spring.’ Essex County: ‘Abun- 
dant.” Ipswich: “Abundant transient visitant.’’ Nantucket: ‘“Com- 
mon.’ Springfield : “Accidental visitor.” One instance. Wellesley: 
* Occasional inland in fall on lake shores.” 
65. A®gialitis meloda (Ord). Pipinc PLOvER. 
A not uncommon summer resident and migrant along the 
coast. Casual inland. 
(March 26) April 8 to August ro. 
Amherst: One instance. May. Bristol County: “Common transient 
visitant along coast. A few breed.’’ Cohasset: ‘‘ Rather common in 
” Essex County: “Summer visitant. Rare.” Ipswich: A 
few summer. Breeds on sand dunes. Nantucket: ‘‘Common.”’ Welles- 
late summer. 
ley: ‘“‘Sometimes rather common in fall along Lake Cochituate.” 
Springfield: “One record only.” Ambherst. 
Note: #gialit’s meloda circumcincta Ridgw. BELTED PIPING PLO- 
VER. 
Although two specimens apparently referable to this subspecies have 
been taken in Massachusetts (Marshfield, April 20, 1896,! and East 
Sandwich, April 5, 1884, by Dr. Charles W. Townsend) we are of 
the opinion, that, as both are males and spring birds, it is more likely 
that they are cases of individual variation of .#. meloda, rather than strag- 
glers from the far west. 
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66. Himantopus mexicanus (Miill.). BLAcK-NECKED STILT. 
Accidental from the south. The records are: Massachusetts, 
Mr. C. J. Maynard “gives it, on the authority of gunners and 
others,” as occasionally seen along the sandy beaches.? JZassa- 
chusetts, two specimens seen in the Boston Market by Mr. G. A. 
Boardman, which were taken in the State.s There is also a speci- 
men inthe mounted collection of the Museum of Comparative 
Zodlogy labelled from Lynn (No. 57039). 
67. Recurvirostra americana (Linn.). AMERICAN AVOCET. 
Accidental from the west. The records are: WVatick, Lake 
1 Brackett; Auk, Vol. XIII, No. 3, July, 1896, p. 256. 
* Maynard; Nat. Guide, 1870, p. 143. 
3 Allen; Amer. Nat., Vol. III, No. 12, Feb., 1870, p. 638, pp. 39, 40 of - 
separate. 
