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Long Beach, arriving April 16th. The majority went farther north, 

 but a number bred and had fresh eggs June 12th. Mr. R. C. Harlow 

 has a set taken at Beach Haven June 8th, 1886, and Mrs. Drown has a 

 set taken there as late as May 30th, 1887. , Krider 1 (1879) says that 

 it bred on Seven Mile and Peck's [=Sommer's] Beaches. By 1889 

 Mr. Shick 2 reports that it bred only in very moderate numbers at the 

 former locality, though it seems to have been plentiful in 1888, ac- 

 cording to Mr. H. G. Parker. 3 



On Five Mile Beach a few bred up to 1892, according to Laurent, 4 

 and occasionally wintered. Dr. W. L. Abbott took it there in 1879 

 as early as April llth. The last records we have are birds seen 

 by Mr. W. L. Baily at Holly Beach July 23d and August 23d, 1896, 

 and at Cape May August 8th, 1897. Stragglers have been reported 

 in former vears on the Delaware. 5 



280 Ochthodromus wilsonius (Ord). 

 Wilson's Plover. 



Adulte. Length, 7.50-7.90. Wing, 4.50. Similar to the Semipalmated 

 Plover, but with larger bill ; black face stripe restricted to the lores, and black 

 collar merely a breast band ; often with a rufous wash on the sides of the head 

 behind the eye. 



Very rare straggler from the south. Xo recent records. Formerly 

 a regular summer resident, but apparently never common, as compared 

 with the Piping Plover. 



Wilson discovered this species on May 13th, 1813, on Cape Island 

 (now Cape May City), but did not live to describe it, and G-eorge Ord, 

 in publishing Wilson's drawing in the ninth volume of the American 

 Ornithology, named the bird after him. Later Ord and Titian R. 

 Peale made an excursion along the coast and found the species pretty 

 common at Brigantine Beach, and at various localities between Great 

 Egg Harbor and Long Beach. 6 



Wm. M. Baird secured two specimens opposite Cape May Court 

 House July loth and 17th, 1843. 7 Turnbull in 1869 regarded it as 



1 Field Notes, p. 61. 



2 Auk, 1890, p. 328. 



3 O. and O., XIV., p. 3. 



*O. and O., 1892, p. 53. 



5 Warren's Report on Birds of Penna., p. 102. 



fi Ord. in Hall's Ed. of Wilson, 1829, Vol. III., p. 156. 



7 Baird, Cassin & Lawrence, Birds of N. A., p. 694. 



