638 NOTES ON SOME OF THE 



coast of New Jersey, where it is said to breed.* In my 

 Catalogue I inserted it as a bird of this state on the authority 

 of Dr. Brewer, who, according to Mr. Peabody, found them 

 abundant at Nahant in August, 1838. But Dr. Brewer 

 wrote me under date of May 8th, 1869, that "Wilson's 

 Plover is not a Massachusetts bird, so far as I know." Dr. 

 Wood informs me that "Wilson's Plover is abundant in 

 August on Long Island," and Mr. Linsley has recorded it 

 from Stratford, Connecticut. It hence seems unquestionable 

 that they sometimes occur in Southern New England, and it 

 would not be strange if they should occasionally reach the 

 coast of Massachusetts.! 



BLACK-NECKED STILT. Himantopus nigricollis Vieill. Mr. 

 G. A. Boardmau informs me that he once saw two specimens 

 of this species in Boston Market that were killed in this 

 state. I have also learned from Mr. Maynard that it is well 

 known, to the gunners of Ipswich, who occasionally meet 

 with it, and by whom it is ironically named "Humility." It 

 appears to be, however, one of the rarest of our visitors, it 

 being properly a southern and south-western species. 



SANDERLING. Calidris arenaria Illiger. A few specimens 

 of this species and of the Semipalmated Sandpiper (Ereu- 

 netes pusillm Cass.), and the Solitary Sandpiper (Rhyaco- 

 philus solitarius Baird), were taken by Mr. Maynard and 

 myself at Ipswich in June, 1868. The last mentioned may 

 have been breeding, as the Massachusetts coast is within its 

 usual breeding range, but the others appeared to be only 

 stragglers that were not breeding, all, apparently, being im- 

 mature birds. The first of these is well known to breed on 

 the coast of Maine, where Prof. Verrill gives it as abundant 

 in summer. In some notes hastily penned for Dr. Cones' 

 "Addenda" to his "List of the Birds of New England," 

 written from memory (at the time of writing them I was on 



*Dr. C. C. Abbott, Geology of New Jersey, Appendix. 



t Compare with this Dr. Coues' remarks on this species in his " List of the Birds of 

 New England," 1. c., p. 291. 



