A^G DuTCHER, Ji/rd A^ofcs from Long Island, N. Y. [October 



6. Crymophilus fulicarius. Red Piialarope. — Mr. G. E. 



Payne, of New York City, while bay-bird shooting at Shinne- 

 cock Bay, September 26, 18S5, procured a female of this species 

 in full winter plumage. He presented the specimen to me, in 

 the flesh, and gave me the following note of the capture. "My 

 gunner, Charles Lane, first observed the bird, and concluded it to 

 be a stranger. It was quietly feeding, and although we were quite 

 close, it did not appear to notice us. It was alone. It was 

 pronounced a Phalarope, but none of the members of the Lane 

 family, who are all gunners, remember ha\ ing seen one like it 

 before." 



6. Phalaropus lobatus. Northern Phalarope. — The only 

 note of this species made by the writer since his record* of the 

 unusual flight which took place in May, 1SS3, is of one which 

 struck Fire Island Light during tlie nigJTt of May 19, 1S84. 

 Wind south south-west, fresh. Weather cloudy. 



7. Phalaropus tricolor. Wh.son's Phaearofe — Mr. G. 

 W. Howell, of Atlanticville, Suffolk Co., shot an individual of 

 this species about August 15, 1S85. The writer had the pleasure 

 of seeing it while being mounted at the taxidermist's. 



S. Macrorhamphus scolopaceus. Long-billed Dow- 

 ITCHER. — I think that on Ltjng Island this wader may be called a 

 regular, but not common, late fall migrant. September 26, 18S4. 

 •Mr. F. M. Chapman informed me that he procured three wdiile 

 at vShinnecock Bay. Capt. Lane, of the same place, wrote me 

 that his sons shot three October 6, 1SS5, and on the next day two 

 more. Mr. E. A. Jackson wrote me that he saw, at Atlanticville, 

 a Dovvitcher on the ^l\\ of October, and another on the 9th. 

 Thev were undoubtedly scolopaceus^ as the common form is never 

 found in this locality so late in the season. October 9, 1885, Mr. 

 \V. F. Hendrickson shot one at Long Island City. 



g. Limosa fedoa. Marbled Godwit. — The 'Brown Mar- 

 lin' of the Long Island giumers is at the l)est a rare bird, and is 

 looked on as a prize at any time. My experience in bay-bird 

 shooting on the South Shore, dating back as it does for twelve 

 years, is a blank regarding this species. Not only ha\e 1 never 

 sh:)t one, l)ut I have never been so fortunate as to hear one utter. 

 its call note, (iiraud saws, "• Arrives on the shores of Long- 

 Island in the month of May : it cannot be said to be an abundant 



*Auk, Vol. I, 18S4, p. 33. 



