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breeding, as has .also Mr. Allen at Springfield, and Mr. Bennett at Holy- 

 oke." (See also Am. Nat., Vol. Ill, 1869, p. 575 ; Maynard's Naturalist's 

 Guide, 1870 ; and this Bulletin, Vol. I, p. G, for accounts of the nesting of 

 this species in Massachusetts.) 



I had no idea that any one acquainted at all with New England birds 

 could say that C. passerinus was rare, or even uncouimon, in Southern 

 New England. Why, it absolutely swarms, so to speak, on Nantucket. I 

 presume Dr. Brewer will allow that island to be included within our 

 limits. On Cape Cod, and, indeed, in various portions of Massachusetts, 

 Rhode Island, and Connecticut, and even northward to Concord, New 

 Hampshire, it may be found in plenty at all suitable localities. At Say- 

 brook, Conn., its notes were to be he.lrd in every field. (See History 

 North American Birds, Vol. I, p. 554, and local lists of New England 

 birds, south of Northern sections, in confirmation of this statement. 



The Long-billed Curlew {Numenius longirostris), ihe Yellow Rail {Por- 

 'zana novchoraccnsis), and the Coot {FuUca americana) I considered spring 

 and fi^ll migrants, rather than as sunnner residents. The lists show this 

 statement also to be true, while the gunners and collectors further confirm 

 it. Perhaps a few may summer on the extreme northeastern coast of 

 Maine, 



But my space is becoming limited. That the Golden-crested Kinglet 

 (Regulus satrajya) winters in numbers in Southern New England, that the 

 Snowbird {Junco ■'hycmalis) does not do so in Northern New England, that 

 the Titlark {Antlms ludovicianus) docs not Aviuter (perhaps with rare ex- 

 ceptions in the southernmost parts), and that JJc^op's^csmz^/raiona regu- 

 larly sunmiers in different portions of New England, are all statements 

 demonstrable by facts already in print, and by the observations of those 

 -\vho speak of that which they do know. 



A word about the Stilt Sandpiper {Micropalma himanfo^ms), and I am 

 done. In the "American Naturalist" (Vol. Ill, p. 639) is recorded the 

 first supposed instance of its occurrence in New England. In the same 

 periodical (Vol. VII, p. 727) is given the first supposed* instance for 

 Massachusetts. Again (in Vol. VI, p. 307) Mr. Brewster says : " The Stilt 

 Sandpiper {Micropalma himantopus), which I see was recorded in a recent 

 number of the 'Naturalist' as new to our Fauna, I consider by no means 

 rare in its migrations. Indeed, I have seen as many as six or seven sent 

 into Boston market at one time, from Cape Cod, and, in the course of a 

 few weeks' shooting in August, at Rye Beach, N. H. (just north of our 

 State limits), secured no less than ten specimens." Not only has he since 

 shot it, but he, as well as myself and others, find it frequently in the 

 Boston markets. 



* Mr. F. C. Browne, of rramingham, has a specimen taken at Plymouth lu 

 1852. 



