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peared in the gloom and I picked up a specimen of Tritiga bairdi. Early 

 the next morning I again visited the spot but there were only six Ring- 

 necks on the flat. On a neighboring mud-bar. however, I shortlv found 

 two Baird's Sandpipers feeding in company with an Ereunetes and all 

 three were quickly secured. The Baird's Sandpipers proved to be a male 

 and female, both birds of the year. They were so fat that their skins 

 were preserved with the greatest difficulty. Whether they represented 

 a part of the flock seen the evening before can of course only be a 

 matter of conjecture. I have, however, good reasons for suspecting that 

 the Baird's Sandpiper regularly occurs at Umbagog in small numbers 

 during the autumnal migration. In view of its known distribution in the 

 West it would be more likely to be found on interior ponds and marshes 

 than along our sea-coast, where it is apparentlv a very rare species. 



The specimens above mentioned were very tame and I watched them 

 for some time before disturbing them. Their motions were slow and 

 sedate and their attitudes crouching. They kept up a low conversational 

 twitter while feeding, and when flushed, flew in that swift, erratic way 

 characteristic of most of the smaller Waders. The peculiar coloring of 

 the upper parts gave them a striped appearance which should serve to 

 distinguish them from any other eastern Sandpiper except Tryngites ru- 

 fescens — William Brewster. Cambridge. Mass. 



Occi'rrexce of Baird's Sandpiper (Tringa bairdi) on the New 

 Hampshire Coast. — While out on the marsh at Rye Beach, N. H., 

 August 26, my attention was called by my companion to a ''Large Peep." 

 as he called it. Upon shooting the bird we found it to be a Tringa bairdi. 

 The same afternoon I obtained another specimen of this bird which was 

 running along the beach in company with a large flock of Peeps. Both 

 birds were very tame and allowed a quite near approach. This is the 

 first record of this bird for New Hampshire. — Henry M. Spelman. 

 Cambridge. Mass. 



Note on Tryngites rufescens in Texas. — The Buff-breasted 

 Sandpiper is mentioned by Mr. Dresser and Dr. Merrill as occurring on 

 the Rio Grande in Texas, but Mr. Sennett and Mr. McCaulev did not note 

 it. Professor Snow calls it rare in Kansas, and Dr. Coues did not meet 

 with it in Dakota while with the Northern Boundarv Survey. My ex- 

 perience is that it is a bird whose occurrence is not to be relied upon in 

 Cooke County, Texas. 



On April 23, 1S77, I saw a flock here and noted no more until April 29, 

 18S0, when I saw two or three flocks of some half-dozen each, near Gains- 

 ville. Not having my gun. I returned next day and scoured the same lo- 

 cality without finding a single Tryngites Thinking they were certainly 

 on the large prairie west of Gainesville, I rode over that for half a dav 

 without seeing a ButF-breast, and gave up the search. On May 3, in riding 

 through the same prairie where I saw the species in question, I came upon 

 a flock of seven and. as before, was without my gun. I procured one and 

 shot four with the first barrel and one with the second ; following the re- 

 maining two I secured them, and no more have been seen since. 



