158 BIRDS OF THE NEW YORK CITY REGION 



MASTIC. Fairly common transient. 



LONG BEACH. Abundant transient, occasional in early 

 winter. April 10, 1917 (Hix) to June 18, 1921 (Janvrin). 

 July 11, 1918 (Bicknell) to January 4, 1910 (Griscom and 

 LaDow). Mr. Bicknell has one late January, two February, 

 but no March records. 



New York State. Regarded as a fairly common transient 

 many years ago at Ossining (Fisher). Now unknown. 



BRONX REGION. Casual on the Pelham Bay marshes May 

 15, 1917 (L. N. Nichols). 



New Jersey. Only one record in our area, a single bird October 

 9, 1921 on the Newark Bay marshes (Urner). I cannot accept the 

 old report of this species from New Brunswick by Dr. C. C. Abbott, 

 whose records are well known to abound with obvious errors. 



MARBLED GODWIT (Limosa fedoa) 



Seventy-five years ago this noble Shore-bird was a regular 

 migrant in May, August, and September, though Giraud did 

 not consider it abundant. In the seventies Mr. Newbold T. 

 Lawrence mentions it as a regular migrant. By the time Mr. 

 Dutcher was compiling his Long Island records it was a rare 

 fall transient, and the last specimen known to him was shot 

 in 1888. It is now a very rare straggler, and there are only 

 five recent records. The two sight records were made by 

 experienced field ornithologists, and deserve full credence. 

 It is almost impossible to mis-identif}^ this striking bird. 



Long Island. Formerly a regular transient in May, August, 

 and September. In the eighties a rare fall transient, July 20 to 

 September 15. Now a very rare straggler from the west. Two shot 

 on Moriches Beach, August 10, 1910 by W. S. Dana. 



ORIENT. Recorded August 20, 1909 at Orient (Roy 

 Latham). 



MASTIC. A single bird excellently observed August 14, 

 1920 (J. T. Nichols and C. H. Rogers). 



HUDSONIAN GODWIT (Limosa haemastica) 

 This species never seems to have been a common bird on 

 Long Island, and in Giraud's time was less numerous than 



