C. If. Merriani Birds of Connecticut. 107 



196. Tringa camitllS Linne. Red-breasted Sandpiper ; Knot. 

 Common during migrations. Taken at Saybrook, by Mr. Sage, 



Aug. 21st, 1874; and Mr. Coe tells me that it is found about the 

 Connecticut River, near Middletown, in summer. 



NOTE. The Stilt Sandpiper, Micropalama himantopus (Bonap.) 

 Baird ; and Baird's Sandpiper, Tringa Bairdii Coues, doubtless 

 occur along the coast during migrations. 



1 97. Calidris arenaria (Linne) Illiger. Sanderling. 



Occurs during migrations, and is extremely abundant in fall. Lins- 

 ley took it at Stratford. Mr. Grinnell informs me that they arrive 

 during the latter part of September, remaining late into October. 

 Thomas Morton wrote of them in 1632 : "Sanderlings are dainty bird, 

 more full bodied than a Snipe, and I was much delighted to feede 

 on them, because they were fatt, and easie to come by, because I 

 went but a stepp or to for them : and I have killed betweene foure 

 and five dozen at a shoot which would lead me home. Their foode is 

 at ebbing water on the sands, of small seeds, that grows on weeds 

 there, and are very good pastime in August."* 



198. Limosa fedoa (Linne) Ord. Great Marbled Godwit. 



A rare migrant. Linsley found it at Stratford, Conn., in August, 

 1 842, " in large flocks, but very shy."f Nearly an hundred years ago, 

 Thomas Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, stated that "it inhabits 

 Hudson's Bay and Connecticut."]; 



199. Limosa Hlldsonica (Latham) Swainson. Hudsonian Godwit. 



A rare migrant. Taken at Stratford by Linsley. Coues suggests 

 that the Limosa Eaioardsii? of Linsley (p. 267) is "perhaps an 

 albino " of this species, but Pennant thought it was the Avocet 

 (Recurvirostra An<ericana).\\ The good old preacher (Linsley), in 

 speaking of these birds, could not take his Lord's name in vain on so 

 slight a provocation hence he called them " ^oo^wits." 



* New English Canaan, p. 47, 1632. Reprinted in Force's Historical Tracts, vol. ii, 

 Tract 5. 



f Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, vol. xliv, No. 2, p. 267, 1843. 



{ Arctic Zoology, vol. ii, p. 465, 1785. 



List of the Birds of New England, p. 48, 1808. 



|| Arctic Zoology, vol. ii, p. 502, 1785. 



