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Island in 1911 (Harper), but it is very doubtful if it still does, as 

 several cottages have now been built on the downs. At least one 

 pair nested near Easthampton in 1920 (Helmuth), and the bird 

 can probably still be found on the extensive downs near Montauk 

 Point. As a transient, still regular in the Montauk region, now rare 

 elsewhere, and casual on the outer beaches. Up to fifteen years ago 

 regular in August and September at Rugby (Hix and Wiegmann), 

 this locality now destroyed. Only one record on the Hempstead 

 Plains in recent years. April 5 to September 17 (October 20). 

 Migrants appear in July. 



ORIENT. Formerly a common summer resident, perhaps 



still nesting locally; otherwise a rare visitant at present. 



April 5, 1905 and April 9, 1914; June 30, 1907 to September 7, 



1907. Nested on Gardiner's Island in 1911 (Harper). 

 MASTIC. No record. 

 LONG BEACH. Casual, September 14, 1918 (Janvrin). 



Reported by the Life Saving Crew as heard flying over every 



summer (Bicknell). 



New York State. A single bird heard flying over the city on a 

 foggy night in late July, 1913, giving its characteristic call (Griscom). 

 Barring this most unsatisfactory observation, I cannot find a single 

 record, old or recent, for the Upland Plover in our area. 



New Jersey. Formerly a common summer resident in many 

 localities. Now almost extirpated. Bred commonly at Morris- 

 town in 1886 (Thurber); not recorded from there since early May 

 1900 (Griscom). Writing in 1904, La Rue K. Holmes records two 

 pairs nesting in a field near Summit; no record since. Found 

 breeding at Ridgewood, Bergen Co., in 1901 (Fowler); now un- 

 known. May still breed near Raritan, and heard occasionally 

 flying over in summer elsewhere in the Plainfield Region (Miller). 

 I have only two recent migration records, a flock reported near 

 Bernardsville in the fall of 1909 (John Dryden Kuser), and from 

 August 2 to September 3, 1922, on the Newark meadows, a maxi- 

 mum of four birds (Urner) . 



ENGLEWOOD REGION. No record. 



BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER (Tryngites subruficollis) 



In Giraud's day this western species was believed to occur 

 almost every season on Long Island in the fall. It is now 

 known as a rare or very rare fall transient, and the published 

 records show that about twenty specimens have been shot. 



