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English Snipe. Common Snipe. A common migrant to the 

 fresh, and not uncommonly to the salt water marshes. This spe- 

 cies has been taken in December and January. Mr. W. Hare H. 

 Powel writes that " at first the birds are found where fresh and 

 salt water meet, and as the season advances they work back to 

 the more upland ponds, springs and slews, especially so in the 

 autumn." 



March 9 to April 30. September 15 to November i. Decem- 

 ber and January. 



(86) 231. Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmel.). Dow- 

 ITCHER. Red-breasted Snipe. Brownback. "Detitscher" German 

 Snipe. Fool Plover. A not uncommon migrant.* 



(May). July 5 to October 8. 



(87) 232. Macrorhamphus scolopaceus (Say). LONG- 

 BILLED DOWITCHER. Mr. Sturtevant took a female at Middle- 

 town on October 8, 1890 now in the collection of Mr. William 

 Brewster, Cambridge. 



(88) 233. Micropalama himantopus (Bonap.). STILT 

 SANDPIPER. Mongrel. Bastard Yellow-leg. An uncommon 

 spring, but not uncommon fall migrant. Mr. F. T. Jencks took 

 a male in the spring plumage on August 2, 1880, at Newport, 1 

 and another at Point Judith on September 5, 1879. Mr. H. S. 

 Hathaway writes " that Mr. Newton Dexter took one at Sakonnet 

 Point on May 9, 1895, now in the Smith collection." Mr. LeRoy 

 King took a female on August i, 1899 an( ^ two on August 13, 

 1899 at Middletown. Mr. F. T. Jencks writes that they are not 

 uncommon at Point Judith in the fall. Mr. Newton Dexter writes 

 "that he has taken a dozen this season." (August 1899). 



May, August i to September 5. 



(89) 234. Tringa canutus Linn. KNOT. Robin Snipe. 



* F. & S., Vol. VI, No. 23, p. 376. 

 Bull. Nut. Orn. Club. Vol. V, No. 4, p. 237. 



