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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 9g to April 30. September 15 to November 1. Decem- 
ber and January. 
(86) 231. Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmel.).  Dow- 
ITCHER. Red-breasted Snipe. Brownback. ‘Deutscher’? German 
Snipe. Fool Plover. — A not uncommon migrant.* 
(May). July 5 to October 8. 
(87) 232. Macrorhamphus scolopaceus (Say). Lonc- 
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,! 
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 1, 1899 and 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 1 to September 5. 
(89) 234. Tringa canutus Linn. Kwor. Robin Snipe. 
PAS Su. VOL VL, NO. 24, p. 370, 
Bull. Nut. Om. Club. Vol. V, No. 4, p. 237. 
