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along the beach. They were fishing a few rods off shore and of- 

 fered unusual opportunities for observation. This is the first time 

 since spring of 1913 that I have noted them. 



E. A. DOOLITTLE. 



Painesville, 0. 



Purple Sandpiper in Lake County, Ohio: While out on the 

 stones of a breakwater that extends some distance out into the 

 lake, on Oct. 29, 1916, I met with a Sandpiper that looked unfa- 

 miliar, and as he seemed very unafraid I took out my note book and 

 began to write as detailed a description as possible. The bird was 

 within 15 feet of where I sat and sized me up as closely while I 

 wrote as I did him. Before I was through observing with the glass, 

 I had made up my mind I had found a Purple Sandpiper, and later 

 book descriptions and plates confirmed this. In case any reader 

 may doubt, here are the field notes which we can see apply to no 

 other Sandpiper. 



"Legs and feet pure deep yellow. Bill about one and one-fourth 

 inches and slightly decurved at tip. Yellow at base and black or 

 nearly so at tip. Head without streaks, plain dull gray on crown. 

 Back without streaks, like head, but feathers edged lightly with 

 darker color. Most of wing feather edged with white. 



"Upper breast dull (grayish,, but lighter than back. .Lower breast 

 somewhat mottled gray and white but not streaked. Sides and 

 under tail coverts lightly streaked. Eye lids white. A small tri- 

 angular shaped area in front of eye darkest spot on head. 



"Size of bird about that of Pectoral and similar in build but legs 

 seem shorter. Later: Flushed bird. Central tail feathers blackish, 

 outer ones lighter — grayish. White edges to wing feathers making 

 bars. 'Krieked' not unlike Pectoral." 



Might add here that on the 18th I found two Red-backed Sand- 

 pipers in this same place. The lower stones of the breakwater are 

 moss covered and the birds in feeding would put the tips of the 

 rather long decurved bills close to the stones feeling about in the 

 mossy growth. The wash of the water would come up ^and bury 

 their heads and shoulders, but they would not even look up, the 

 receding water leaving them with tip of bills close to the rock, 

 moving about in the mossy growth. 



E. A. DOOLITTLE. 



Painesville, O. 



Black-throated Green Warbler as a Summer Resident: I have 

 found this Warbler in summer the past three years, and this season 

 found evidence enough to establish them as breeding birds. 



