"2 2 DuTCHER on Birds of Long Island^ N. T. [January 



this species on Long Island vvliile collecting. It was not included 

 b}' Mr. Giraud in his list published in 1844,* but was by Mr. 

 G. N. Lawrence in his catalogue published in iS66.| 



4. Herodias alba egretta {Gmel.) Ridgxv. American 

 Egret. — August 3, 1883, Nelson Verity, a gunner, shot on the 

 marshes at South Oyster Bay, and sent me, a male of this species. 

 He tells me that they usually arrive about August i, and remain 

 until the latter part of September. In the course of the season he 

 sees, perhaps, 25. During the summer of 1882 a few were shot, 

 a lad killing two in one day. Verity also tells me that they are 

 invariably found in company with the Great Blue Heron, Ardea 

 herodias. 



5. _Garzetta candidissima {Gtnel.) Bp. Snowy Heron. 

 — July II, i88'i, while on the marshes at South Oyster Bay, I 

 saw seven individuals of this species, but they were so wild I 

 could not get a shot at them. On the following day I saw but 

 one. Jul}' 17, Nelson Verity, a gunner, killed three, one of which, 

 a female, he sent to me. Verity afterwards informed me that his 

 father, who is also a gunner, killed seven on the same marshes in 

 one day, later in the summer of 1882. About Jul}' i, 1883, 

 Verity saw a flock of five near Fire Island, and on the 3d of July 

 he shot one on the South Oyster Bay marshes. 



6. Macrorhamphus griseus scolopaceus {Say) Cozies. 

 Red-bellied Snipe. — A female of this species was shot Sep- 

 tember 19, 18S2, by a sportsman stopping at "Lane's" on Shinne- 

 cock Bay, who kindly presented it to me. September 26, 1S83, 

 I secured another in the same locality. The gunners about 

 Shinnecock Bay claim that they can distinguish the note of this 

 bird from that of its congener, Alacroi- hafnphns g)-iseiis. The 

 measurements of these two specimens are as follows : 



7. Pelidna subarquata {Guld.) Cuv. Curlew Sand- 

 piper. — A specimen of this species was shot by Charles A. Lane 

 at Shinnecock Bay and sefit to me. He wrote, "The Snipe 



* The Birds of Long Island. By j. P. Giraud, Jr. 1844. 



t Catalogue of Birds observed on New York, Long and Staten Islands, and the adja- 

 cent parts of New Jersey. By Geo. N. Lawrence. 1866. 



