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The latest occurrence of this species in Connecticut appears to ha\e 

 been a specimen taken bj myself on September 30, 1S95. A solitarj 

 individual was found on tlie Qiiinnepiac marslies, which are situated near 

 New Haven, Conn. A very stormy condition of the weather had existed 

 for two days, and it was not strange that a species of the Limicolse was 

 blown inland by the prevailing easterly winds. On a portion of the 

 meadows an unfamiliar looking Sandpiper was observed feeding in the 

 grass. It appeared to be a bird of the present species, and seemed rest- 

 less and wary, but it was shot before it could fly off. The bird was picked 

 up, and found to be a Buft-breasted Sandpiper (Tyyngites stibncjicollis), 

 in tlie young plumage. No other birds of the Snipe family appeared to 

 be in the vicinity. This record seems to be the second or third instance 

 of the capture of this species in Connecticut, at least in recent years. 



One of the previous instances may not have been recorded ; a young 

 bii'd was shot in the latter part of August, 1889, by Mr. Edward L. 

 Munson, of New Haven, in almost exactly the same locality as that in 

 which my specimen was taken. 



In Massachusetts there have been a small number of these Sandpipers 

 killed. Mr. George W. Mackey, of Nantucket, Mass., mentions in ' The 

 Auk' (Vol. IX, 1892, p. 389) the capture of a few specimens on that 

 island. Dr. Louis B. Bishop, of New Haven, informs me that he shot a 

 3'oung female Buff-breasted Sandpiper on Monomoy Island, Cape Cod, 

 Mass., on September 19, 1895, and that another specimen was killed there 

 by a market gunner on the same day. 



Several more instances were reported some years ago from Cape Cod 

 by the late Mr. J. C. Cahoon, of Taunton, Mass. 



It has been taken several times on Long Island, N. Y., but the latest 

 record in that locality seems to be August 28, 18S8 (Auk, Vol. VI, 1S89, 

 p. 136). 



The Buff-breasted Sandpiper is often found associating with the Pec- 

 toral Sandpiper {Tringa maculata) and it is to be looked for in flocks of 

 the latter in the autumnal migrations. There are two instances of its 

 capture in the Magdalen Islands, Qiiebec, Canada, where one individual 

 was found on two occasions with a flock of Pectoral Sandpipers. The 

 first instance was in September, 1888, the second in early September, 

 1890. 



As most of the above records of the occurrence of the Buff-breasted 

 Sandpiper in the East are spread over a number of years, the species 

 must be considered as rather rare along the coast of the New England 

 States. — C. C. Trowbridge, Nezv York City. 



Status of Helodromas ochropus in the A. O. U. List. — This European 

 straggler appears correctly as "Accidental in Nova Scotia," I presume 

 upon strength of the Halifax specimen in the Seebohm Collection, now 

 in the British Museum. But we have forgotten or at any rate ignored the 

 fact that the species was duly entered as North American in the Fn. Bor.- 



