C. IL Merriam Birds of Connecticut. 103 



Family, H^EMATOPODID^E. 



181. HaematOpUS palliatUS Temminck. Oyster-catcher. 



A rare migrant. Linsley says: "The Oyster-catcher is now rare 

 here, but fifteen years since they were nut very uncommon in 

 autumn."* 



1 82. Strepsilas interpres (Linne) Illiger. Turnstone. 



A common migrant. Linsley gave it from Stratford, and Capt. 

 Brooks writes me that it is " quite common in spring and fall" about 

 Faulkner's Island, Conn. Mr. Sage, of Portland, has a beautiful male, 

 which he killed at Westbrook, Conn., May 23d, 1877. In fall it 

 returns during the latter part of August (Aug. 31, 1874, F. W. Hall). 



Family, BECUBVIBOSTBID^E. 



183. Becurvirostra Americana Gmeiin. Avocet. 



A rather rare migrant. Josiah G. Ely, Esq., writes me that he has 

 seen but one specimen of the Avocet taken on our coast. " It was 

 caught, in 1871, between Saybrook and East Lyme, in an old seine 

 strung out on the beach to dry," and was kept alive for some time by 

 a storekeeper. 



Family, PHALABOPODID^E. 



1 84. Steganopus "Wilsoni (Sabine) Coues. Wilson's Phalarope. 



Of rare and almost accidental occurrence in New England, though 

 common throughout the West. Linsley says of it: "Wilson's Pha- 

 larope 1 have in my cabinet ; it was killed in Bridgeport [Conn.] and 

 sent to me by a friend, and is probably one of the rarest birds in New 

 England. It is not only beautiful, but the great quantity of plumage 

 on a bird so small and delicate, together with his unique bill, seems 

 to render it one of the most peculiar of this class of animals."f 



1 85. PhalaropllS flllicarius (Linne) Bonaparte. Eed Phalarope. 



A rare visitor from the North. Mr. W. W. Coe has a specimen in 

 his cabinet, killed at Portland, Conn., in September. 



* Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, vol. xliv, No. 2, p. 265. April. 1843. f Op. cit., p. 268. 



