14 THE BIRDS OF SPRINGFIELD AND VICINITY. 



specimens here during the past twenty years. Although I 

 have no positive evidence, still I have little doubt that it 

 occasionally breeds here. 



221. Fulica americana Gmel. AMERICAN COOT. A 

 common autumn visitor, but rare in' the spring. 



222. Crymophilus fulicarius (I/inn.). RED PHAL- 

 AROPE. Accidental visitor; on the 3oth of September, 1893, 

 William H. Lee captured two out of a flock of a dozen near 

 Chicopee ; these are the specimens in the Museum of Natural 

 History. 



223. Phalaropus lobatus (I/inn.). NORTHERN 

 PHALAROPE. Accidental visitor ; one was taken in Ware, 

 October 13, 1875. (See Bulletin Nutthall Ornithological 

 Club, Vol. 5, page 122.) 



228. Philohela minor (Gmel.). AMERICAN WOOD- 

 COCK. Regular spring and autumn visitor, and a tolerably 

 common summer resident. Fifteen years ago, woodcock bred 

 regularly and abundantly, but about 1887 they almost ceased 

 to do so, and only occasionally could a brood be found here ; 

 this condition continued for about a decade, but during the 

 last three years they have again been more numerous as sum- 

 mer residents. 



230. Gallinago delicata (Ord.). W T ILSON'S SNIPE. 

 Common spring and autumn visitor, and I have known of 

 its being here both in midsummer and midwinter. 



231. Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmel.). DOWITCHER. 

 Rare spring and autumn migrant, not as common as formerly. 



234. Tringa canutus I/inn. KNOT. Accidental visitor; 

 a number of years ago I captured one the last of August, 

 which is the only instance known to me of its presence here. 



