American Museum of Natural History. 241 



*145. JEgialitis VOCifera. KILLDEER. A not common sum- 

 mer resident. 



146. ^Egialitis semipalmata. SEMIPALMATED PLOVER. 

 Abundant spring and autum visitant. 



*147. jEgialitis meloda. PIPING PLOVER. Common sum- 

 mer resident along the coast. 



[147#.] ./Egialitis meloda circumcincta. BELTED PIPING 

 PLOVER. Probably of rare or casual occurrence, it having been 

 taken on Long Island (Rockaway, April 30, 1873, Eagle, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, III, 1878, 94), and at the Magdalen Islands, 

 Gulf of St. Lawrence (Cory, Naturalist in the Magdalen Islands, 

 1878, 6 1 ). I am under the impression that I have seen a Massa- / 

 chusetts example. 



[148.] jEgialitis wilsonia. WILSON'S PLOVER. Accidental. 

 Gurnet (" Conn."=Mass.), Aug. 20, 1877 (Coues, apud Fisk, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, VII, 1882, 59). There are several recent Long 

 Island (N. Y.) records, and it has lately been taken in Nova 

 Scotia (Goss, Auk, II, 221). 



149. Arenaria interpres. TURNSTONE. Rather common 

 spring and autumn visitant. 



[150.] Ha&matopus palliatus. AMERICAN OYSTER-CATCHER. 

 Now of merely accidental occurrence. The only recent explicit 

 record is Chatham, April, 1885 (Brewster, Auk, II, 1885, 384; 

 Cahoon, same specimen, Orn. and Ool., X, 1885, 160). Formerly, 

 doubtless, not uncommon. 



^151. Colinus virginianus. BOB-WHITE. More or less com- 

 mon resident in most parts of the State. 



[152.] Dendragapus canadensis. CANADA GROUSE. Acci- 

 dental. Only two recorded instances of its capture, which are 

 Gloucester, 1851 {Putnam, Proc. Essex Inst., I, 1856, 224); 

 Roxbury, about 1865 (Allen, Am. Nat., Ill, 1870, 636). 



*153. Bonasa umbellus. RUFFED GROUSE. Common resi- 

 dent. 



*154. TympanucllUS Clipido. PRAIRIE HEN. Formerly 

 common in various parts of the State, but long since extirpated, 

 except on the Island of Martha's Vineyard, where they still exist 

 1886.] 



