og BIRDS OF MASSACHUSETTS 



iton" Templeton: " Common summer resident." [Doubtless an error]. 

 Wellesley: "Migrant." 



80. Actitis macularia (Linn.). SPOTTED SANDPIPER. 

 A very common summer resident. 



April 19 to October 5 (November 6). 



Amherst: " Common summer resident." Berkshire: " Common sum- 

 mer resident." Bristol County : " Common summer resident." Brook- 

 line : "A not uncommon migrant." Cambridge: Common summer 

 resident. Cohasset: "Common in spring and fall; a few breed." 

 Dedham : "Common." Essex County: " Summer visitant. Common." 

 Ipswich: "Abundant summer resident." Nantucket: "Common." 

 Springfield: "Abundant summer resident." Templeton: "Common 

 in summer." Wellesley: " Common summer resident." 



81. Pavoncella pugnax (Linn.). RUFF. 



Accidental from the Old World. The records are : Newburyport 

 Marshes, an adult female taken May 20, 1871 ; 1 Chatham, a young 

 male [female?] shot September 12, 1880, as per label on the speci- 

 men which is now in the mounted collection of the Brookline High 

 School. 2 



82. Bartramia longicauda (Bechst.). BARTRAMIAN SAND- 

 PIPER. 



Formerly a not uncommon summer resident, but now occurring 

 chiefly as an uncommon spring and autumn migrant, and breeding 

 locally. 



April 10 to October i. 



Amherst: "A rare summer resident, not uncommon in the fall." Berk- 

 shire: "Transient visitant in the spring and autumn." Bristol County : 

 " Rather common transient visitant." Cambridge : Not common transient 

 visitant. Cohasset: "One instance." Essex County: "April, and Au- 

 gust to October. Not abundant." Ipswich :" Not uncommon transient 

 visitant." Nantucket: "Common." Springfield: " Rather rare summer 

 resident, breeding in Russell and Blandford." Templeton : " Not rare in 

 the autumn." [Breeds at Winchendon. Brewster]. Wellesley: "Scarce 

 migrant." 



83. Ereunetes pusillus (Linn.). SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER. 



1 Brewster; Amer. Nat., Vol. VI, No. 5, May, 1872, p. 306. 



2 Forest and Stream, Vol. XV, No. 10, Oct. 7, 1880, p. 186. 



