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History was taken at Ipswich on March 13, 1908. Mr. Russell 

 Bearse took another King Rail at Chatham on December 28, 



1908. This bird is in the collection of Mr. Warren E. Freeman 

 of Arhngton, Mass.^ Mr. Richard M. Russell took a King 

 Rail at Sandy Neck, West Barnstable, on December 30 or 

 31, 1909. This bird is owned by the Boston Society of Natural 

 History. 2 One was taken by Mr. W. A. Carey, October 2, 



1909, at Chatham. A setter dog caught one ahve October 25, 

 1909, on the marsh at Chatham. Mr. Frank Eldredge took 

 a lone bird at Chatham on October 20, 1909.^ One spent the 

 month of May, 1910, in a swamp in Bennington, Vt.^ On 

 August 30, 1911, a King Rail was taken along the Connecticut 

 River below Springfield.^ Another was taken August 22, 

 1913, in Longmeadow.® 



Three winter records from Rhode Island are given in Howe 

 and Sturtevant's Birds of Rhode Island. Since then a male 

 and a female were taken on May 3, 1904, and a male on May 

 9, 1904, all at Easton's Pond, Newport, by Mr. C. B. Clark. 

 One was taken October 13, 1907, by Mr. H. S. Champhn. 

 Mr. Clark took four birds at Point Judith on the following 

 dates: a female August 26, an adult male September 3, a male 

 on September 12, and another male on December 12, 1909.^ 



WILSON'S PHALAROPE {Steganopus tricolor). See page 230. 



Mr. Harry S. Hathaway took a male Wilson's Phalarope 

 at Quonochontaug, R. I., on August 28, 1909.^ An adult 

 female was taken by a Mr. Whitlock at Quogue, Long Island, 

 N. Y., on September 4, 1911.^ 



MARBLED GODWIT {Limosa fedoa). See page 296. 



A Marbled Godwit was taken at Amesbury, Mass., by Mr. 

 Benjamin F. Damsell on July 28, 1888, and another on July 

 30.^° One was taken by a gunner named Merritt on September 

 7, 1908, at Sakonnet Point, R. I. The specimen was mounted 



1 Fay, S. Prescott: Auk, 1910, p. 220. « Morris, Robert C: Auk, 1913, p. 580. 



2 Howe, R. Heber, Jr.: Auk, 1910, p. 339. ' Hathaway, Harry S.: Auk, 1913, pp. 549-550. 



3 Fay, S. Prescott: Auk, 1911, p. 121. s ibU., p. 551. 



* Ross, Lucretius H.: Auk, 1913, p. 436. ' Kobb6, Frederick Wm.: .\uk, 1912, p. 108. 



B Morris. Robert 0.: Auk, 1912, p. 237. "> Allen, Glover M.: Auk, 1913, p. 24. 



