58 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



male taken by A. Gaming (in coll. of L. B. B.) ; Sept. 9, 1910, 

 Bridgeport, female taken (H. W. B.). 



Pisobia minutilla (Vieillot). Least Sandpiper. 



A common spring and fall migrant along the coast ; not rare 

 inland. 



Spring migration. Earliest record. New Haven, May 8, 

 1900, May 6, 1905 (A. A. S.). Latest record. June 5, 1894. 



Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, July 14, 1904. 

 Latest record. Sept. 22, 1883. 



The old birds pass south about the middle of July, and the 

 young birds follow during August and the first half of September. 



Inland records. May 19, 1883, Portland, one taken (in coll. 

 of J. H. S.) ; Sept. 9, 1892, Middletown, four killed (in coll. of 

 J. H. S.) ; May 23, 1893, East Hartford (W. E. T.) ; May 17, 

 1895, Portland, three shot by C. H. N. (two in coll. of J. H. S.). 



Pelidna alpina sakhalina (Vieillot). Red-backed Sandpiper. 



A rare spring and tolerably common late fall migrant along 

 the coast. 



Fall migration. Earliest record. New Haven, Sept. 25, 1903. 

 Latest record. New Haven, Oct. 29, 1895. 



Spring record. May 19, 1904, Quinnipiac Marshes, North 

 Haven (L. B. B.). 



Almost all specimens of this Sandpiper taken in Connecticut 

 are young birds. 



A young female in the collection of L. B. B., shot by A. 

 Ganung in West Haven, Sept. 29, 1904, is almost as small as a 

 European Dunlin (Pelidna alpina alpina} : length, 8.44; culmen, 

 1.42; wing, 4.51; tarsus, 1.12. It was very lean, as if it had 

 traveled far without resting, whereas our Red-backed Sand- 

 pipers are usually very fat in the fall. It is only a trifle larger 

 than an adult female Dunlin from England; but, as the chief 

 character separating these races is the length of the bill, and as 

 the bills of most sandpipers do not reach their full size until late 

 in the first fall, it seems safer to consider this bird merely an 

 unusually small Red-backed Sandpiper. 



