Vol 'i™ VI ] General Notes. 105 



were again certainly seen. This species has not been previously recorded 

 from Connecticut in spring. 



Tringa canutus. Knot. — Two birds of this species were seen May 

 25 in company with the Dowitchers seen on that date. They were ob- 

 served clearly and were in the beautiful rosy-breasted and gray-backed 

 spring plumage. This species has been recorded but once previously in 

 spring from Connecticut (Gabrielson, Auk XXXIV, 462-3) and then from 

 nearly the same locality as this record. 



Totanus flavipes. Yellowlegs. — Two birds of this species were 

 observed at Norwalk, May 11. They were in company with the larger 

 species, so that comparisons in size were easily made to identify them. 

 There are but two previous spring records from Connecticut. 



Squatarola squatarola. Black-bellied Plover. — This species was 

 first noted on May 18, and was abundant from May 25 to June 1. During 

 that time a good many in apparently full adult plumage were noted. 



Arenaria interpres morinella. Ruddy Turnstone. — This species 

 was very abundant from May 25 until June 1, flocks numbering from a 

 dozen to fifty or more being seen. In fact, this species, usually rare in 

 spring, was equally abundant with such common species as the Least 

 Sandpiper and Semipalmated Plover. — Aretas A. Saunders, Norwalk, 

 Conn. 



Killdeer (Oxyechus vociferus) Nesting in West Haven, Conn.— For 



the past two seasons word has been sent to me that Snipe were nesting 

 on a certain farm near West Haven, but I did not pay any attention to it, 

 as I at once thought they were Spotted Sandpipers. 



About the middle of June of the past season a farmer said to me that 

 there was a Snipe's nest in one of his corn fields, and that it contained four 

 eggs. I at once questioned him in regard to the size of the birds and, he 

 said they were as big as Robins, and that they had black collars on their 

 necks. 



On July 7 I paid a visit to the farm and as I was passing a pasture lot 

 1 heard the call of a Killdeer and looking over the lot I saw a pair of the 

 birds. 



When I reached the house the man took me into a corn field back of the 

 barn, and, there in the center of the field was the nest with three eggs, one 

 having been broken accidentally while cultivating. The nest was simply a 

 depression in the ground with a few small pebbles on which the eggs lay. 

 The old bird made her appearance and moved about the field, dragging her 

 wing and feigning lameness. 



The eggs at this date were heavily incubated so I took two exposures of 

 the nest and left it hoping they would return in 1919 as the farmer said 

 they had nested on his place for three years. A few days later I had an 

 interview with the son of a farmer who had previously told me about 

 Snipe nesting on his place, and, he said that they had nested there this 



