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a few remain in the vicinity of Toledo, and in Erie, Ottawa, Crawford, 

 and Marion counties. Mr. R. E. Neil informs me that a few years since a 

 few remained at Radnon, Delaware Co. — J. M. Wheaton, Columbus, O. 



The Great WiiiteEgret in New Brunswick. — Mr. C. J.Maynard 

 has informed me of the capture of an immature specimen of Ardea erjreUa, 

 which he examined in the flesh, shot at Whitehead, Island of Grand 

 Menan, on the 3d November, 1878. It is a singular fact that so many 

 instances have occurred in late years of southern species having wandered 

 north to New England and more northern localities in the fall and winter 

 months. Besides a bird of this species recorded for Nova Scotia by Mr. 

 J. Matthew Jones of Halifax, this is, I think, the most northern locality 

 in which this bird has been detected. — Ruthven Deane, Cambridge, 

 Mass. 



The Stilt Sandpiper (Micropalama himantopm) ox the New Jer- 

 sey Coast. — During my stay at Squam Beach, N. J., last summer, from 

 July 15 to September 15, ten Stilt Sandpipei's wtre shot there. Nearly 

 all were killed about September 1, and, excepting a flock of three, all wore 

 single birds. Six are now in my possession. I believe the Stilt Sand- 

 piper has been rarely taken in New Jersey, as I know of but one other 

 recent capture. 



This species will now have been recorded, in numbers, all along the Maine, 

 New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Long Island, and New Jersey coasts, at 

 suitable places from Portland, Me., to Squam Beach, N. J., shoAving not only 

 that it is a regular migrant, but also that there is every probability of its 

 being taken farther north and farther south. It would now seem that it 

 can hardly be regarded as a rare straggler on that part of the Atlantic 

 coast from Maine to New Jer.sey. The question arises. Has the Stilt 

 Sandpiper been much overlooked, or has it, of late years, increased in 

 abundance V — J. Dwight, Jr., Cambridge, Mass. 



Notes on New England Birds. — Mr. George H. Mackay furnishes 

 me with the following memoranda, which are not without interest. 



1. Gallinula galeata. Florida Gallinule. — An immature bird 

 was shot late in the autumn of 1872, probably in October, near the north 

 end of Hummock Pond, Nantucket. The specimen is now in the collec- 

 tion of the Boston Society of Natural History. 



2. Micropalama himantopus. Stilt Sandpiper. — A single speci- 

 men, in company with one Ga7iibcttajlacipes, was shot July 25, 1878, at 

 Nantucket. The capture is interesting on account of locality and its early 

 date. [See this Bulletin, Vol. Ill, p. 148.] 



3. Gallinago •vyilsoni. Wilson's Snipe. — Obtained August 29, at 

 Nantucket. 



4. iEgialitis meloda. Piping Plover. — Taken at Nantucket as 

 early as April 14, 1878. 



