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and very frequently a single bird or pair, come to his 

 decoys. And, of the four specimens in his collection, two, 

 in adult breeding plumage, were taken in July, the others 

 in fall plumage, in September. This note is interesting 

 as presenting different conditions from any recorded in 

 New England [?]. But one occurrence of this species is 

 known in July, and that in the last part of the month 

 and fifteen miles from the sea. Mr. Geo. N. Lawrence 

 writes me, in reference to the same species, that he 

 lived at Rockaway for five summers, and on one oc- 

 casion, when he was there, there was a flight of this 

 species and Gambetta flavipes, the latter the most 

 abundant, and of the two species there were killed over 

 one hundred and twenty individuals. He says he 

 remembers killing six of the M. himantoptis at one shot 

 He never saw so many together as on that day, but 

 all through the season scattering ones were shot "(Bull. 

 Nutt Club, iii, 1878, p. 148). 



Mr. J. Dwight, Jr., next contributes intelligence of 

 several Stilt Sandpipers from New Jersey, July 15 to 

 Sept. 15, remarking: "This species will now have been 

 recorded, in numbers, all along the Maine, New Hamp- 

 shire, Massachusetts, Long Island, and New Jersey 

 coasts, at suitable places from Portland, Me., to Squam 

 Beach, N. J , showing not only that it is a regular 

 migrant, but also that there is every probability of 

 its being taken farther north and farther south. It 

 would now seem that it can hardly be regarded as a 

 rare straggler on that part of the Atlantic coast from 

 Maine to New Jersey. The question arises, Has the 

 Stilt Sandpiper been much overlooked, or has it of late 

 years increased in abundance ? " (Bull. Nutt. Club, iv, 

 > P- 63). 



