C. If. Mcrriiuii — liirds of < 'ojuHftlrKf. 



107 



196. Tringa CanutUS Liiin.-. Rc(l-l,ro,',sk..l .S;.iuli.i|.t'r; Knot. 

 C'oiiiinon liming mi-irations. Taken at Sayhiook, by Mr. Sagr, 



Aug. 21st, 1874; and JNlr. Coc tells nie that it is lum,.! aLont tlie 

 Connecticut Kivor, near JMiddletow ii, in snininer. 



Note. — The Stilt Sandpiiier, MIcropahaiHi hinninto/nis (|',(.na|..) 

 Baird ; and Baird's Sandpiper, Triii(/(( Jinlnlii Cones, donlttless 

 occur along the coast during niigrntions. 



197. Calidris arenaria (Linm') Illiger. Sanderling. 



Oecurs during migrations, and is extremely ahnndant in lull. Kins- 

 ley took it at Stratford. jMr. Grinnell informs nie that they arrive 

 during the latter ])art of September, remaining late into October. 

 Thomas Morton wrote of them in 1632 : "Sanderlings are dainty bird, 

 more full bodied than a Snipe, and I was much delighted to feede 

 on them, because they were fatt, and easie to come by, because I 

 went but a stepp or to for them : and I have killed betweene foure 

 and five dozen at a shoot which would lead me home. Their foode is 

 at ebbing water on the sands, of small seeds, that grows on weeds 

 there, and are very good pastime in August."* 



1 98. LimOSa fedoa (Linm-) Ord. Great itarljled Godwit. 



A rare migrant. Linsley found it at Stratford, Ciinn., in August, 

 1842, "in large flocks, but very shy."f Nearly an hundred years ago, 

 Thomas Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, stated that "it inhabits 

 Hudson's Bay and Connecticut.''^ 



199. Liimosa HudSOnica (Latham) Swainson. Hiidsonian Godwit. 



A rare migrant. Taken at Stratford by Linsley. Coues suggests 

 that the LImosa Edicardsii ? of Linsley (p. 267) is "i)erhaps an 

 albino "§ of this species, but I'ennant thought it was the Avocet 

 [Recw'virostra Anierican<i).l The good old ])reaelier (Linsley), in 

 speaking of these birds, could not take his Lord's name in vain on s.> 

 slight a provocation— hence he called them " 6-'oo(Avits." 



* New English Canaan, p. 47, 16^2. Reprinted in Force's Historical Tracts, vol. ii, 

 Tract 5. 



f Am. Jour. Sci. and Arts, vol. xliv, No. 2, p. 2G7, 1843. 



X Arctic Zoology, vol. ii, p. 465, 1785. 



§ List of the Birds of New England, p. 18, 18(18. 



II Arctic Zoology, vol. ii, p. 502, 1785. 



