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Fall migration. Earliest record. Guilford, Aug. 27, 1883. 

 Latest record. West Haven, Oct. 25, 1909 (A. Ganung). 



Merriam 1 records that Capt. Brooks informed him that they 

 were " plenty at Guilford in spring and early fall," and occa- 

 sional in the fall, at Faulkner's Island ; Linsley found it at Strat- 

 ford, and W. W. C. recorded it from Portland. 



Other records. " Plentiful at Lyme, Sept. i, 1858, 104 being 

 shot on that day by John Grumley " (MS. notes of J. C. Corn- 

 stock, J. H. S.) ; Aug. 27, 30, 1883, Guilford, three adults seen 

 and one secured (L. B. B.) ; Oct. 24, 1885, Hartford, a young 

 male flushed from a stubble field (W. E. T.) ; 2 Sept. 3, 1886, 

 Quinnipiac Marshes, North Haven [?], a young bird taken (A. 

 H. V., in Peabody Museum) ; Sept. 12, 1889, same place, one 

 taken (Munson) ; Oct: 17, 1893, Portland, one shot (in coll. of 

 J. H. S.) ; Sept. 25 to Oct. 2, 1903, West Haven, about twenty 

 taken (A. Ganung) ; Sept. 20-1, 1904, four young, Oct. 20, 1906, 

 fifteen, Oct. 7, 1907, two, Sept. 15, Oct. 25, 1909, one, all at 

 West Haven (A. Ganung, many of these in coll. of L. B. B.) ; 

 Sept. 19, 1908, Sept. 10, 1909, Sept. 4, 1911, Stratford 

 (H. W. B.). 



Oxyechus vociferus (Linnaeus). Killdeer. 



A rather rare summer resident, apparently increasing during 

 the last decade. 



Earliest record. New Haven, March 6, 1902; Portland, Feb. 

 24, 1875 (W. W. C.). 1 



Latest record. New Haven, Oct. 27, 1911 (H. K. J.) ; Middle- 

 town, Nov. 6, 1908 (J. H. S.). 



Connecticut records. Mr. J. C. Comstock, in his MS. notes, 

 records seeing them at Lyme during the whole winter of 1851-2 

 (J. H. S.) ; April 5, 1875, Middletown, male killed (J. H. S.) ; 

 March 12, 1886, Saybrook (J. N. C.) ; Aug. 4, 1886, Quinnipiac 

 Marshes, North Haven, one taken (Munson) ; April 22, 1887, 

 New Haven (L. B. W., one in coll. of L. C. S.) ; April 16, 

 1888, New Haven (Webb) ; summer, 1889, North Haven (Mun- 

 son) ; Feb. i, 1889, May 23, 1902, May 25, July 2, 1904, taken, 

 Sept. 15, 1902, Aug. 13, 1903, heard, near New Haven (L. B. 

 B.) ; Nov., 1892, New Haven (seen in gun store, Dec., by L. 



1 Merriam, Birds of Conn., p. 102. 



^ Auk, iv, i, p. 78. 



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