ANNOTATED LIST OF SPECIES 4! 



Cambridge: Casual, one instance, October. Cohasset : "Not rare in 

 late fall and winter." Essex County: ''Winter. Rather rare." Spring- 

 field : -i Accidental visitor." One instance, November. 



92. Tringa ferruginea Brilnn. CURLEW SANDPIPER. 

 Accidental from the Old World. The records are : Cape Ann, 



one taken in the autumn of 1865 - 1 East Boston, one taken early 

 in May, 1866;- Nahant, one taken about i869; 8 Ipswich, one 

 taken about 1875 ; 4 Cape Cod, one taken about May 10, 1878 ; 3 

 Chatham, a male taken August 26, 1889, and now in the mounted 

 collection of the Brookline High School. 5 



93. Tringa canutus Linn. KNOT. 



An uncommon spring and autumn migrant along the coast, 

 rarely wintering. Casual inland.* 



May 1 1 to June 5 (June 15) ; July 13 to October 28; Winter. 



Bristol County: "Common transient visitant. Not so common in- 

 land." Cohasset : " Rare in spring, fairly common in the fall." Ipswich : 

 " Rather uncommon transient visitant." Nantucket : ''Scarce." Spring- 

 field: "Accidental visitor." Wellesley: " Casual inland." Lake Cochit- 

 uate. 



94. Tringa alpina Linn. EUROPEAN DUNLIN. 

 Accidental from the Old World. Mr. Charles J. Paine, Jn T per- 

 mits us to record here for the first time the capture of this species 

 in Massachusetts, on the basis of a female taken at Chatham ^ 

 August n, 1900, by Mr. J. S. Cochrane. This specimen is now 

 in Mr. William Brewster's collection (No. 48598). 



95. Tringa alpina pacifica (Coues). RED-BACKED SAND- 

 PIPER. 



A rare spring and not uncommon autumn migrant on the coast. 



1 Samuels; Ornithology and Oology of X. E., 1867, p. 444. 



2 Brewster; Bull. Xutt. Orn. Club, Vol. I, Xo. 2, July, 1876. pp. 51. 5?. 

 :} Deane; Hull. Xutt. Orn. Club, Vol. IV, Xo. 2, Apr., 1879, P- I2 4- 



4 Brewer; Proc. Bost. Soc. Xat. Hist., Vol. XVII, 1875, p. 446. 

 5 Editor; O. & O., Vol. XV, No. 7, July, 1890, p. no. 

 *Mackay; Auk, Vol. X, No. i, Jan., 1893, pp. 25-35. 



