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record a specimen shot at R3^e Beach, Aug. 27, 1868, by a local 

 gunner. Mr. Brewster examined the specimen shortly after its 

 death. 



81. Totanus melanoleviciis (Gmel.). Greater Yel- 

 low-legs. 



A. common spring and fall migrant on the coast, but uncom- 

 mon inland, where it is of occasional occurrence about the larger 

 bodies of water and in the Connecticut valley. Mr. R. H. 

 Howe, Junior ( : 01, p. 27) records an eaily specimen at the head 

 of Newfound Lake, July 17, 1901. Both Mr. F. B. Spaulding 

 at Lancaster and Mr. W. M. Buswell at Charlestown in the Con- 

 necticut river valle}-, find the bird occasionally on migrations, 

 and Mr. G. H. Thayer writes me that it is not infrequent. at Dub- 

 lin Lake in fall. 



Dates : May; July 17 to October 7. 



82. Totanus flavipes (Gmel.). Yellow-legs. 



An uncommon spring, and common fall migrant on the coast. 

 Rather rare inland; Mr. C. J. Maynard ('72) gives it as " not 

 a common summer visitor " at Lake Umbagog, 30 3^ears ago, 

 and Mr. Ned Dearborn ('98, p. 10) records a single bird ob- 

 served Aug. 20, 1889, at Alton. 



8.3. Helodronias solitarius ( Wils.). Solitary Sand- 

 piper. 



A common spring and fall migrant, and possibly a rare sum- 

 mer resident. No conclusive proof has j^et appeared to show 

 that the bird nests in the state, though Baird, in Baird, Brewer 

 and Ridgway's " Water Birds" ('84, p. 282), sa^'s, "Early in 

 August, 1878, 1 noticed a pair of this species with a brood of four 

 young hardly able to fly, near an open reservoir of rain water, on 

 Appledore, Isles of Shoals. These were too young to have come 

 to that island over the water, the distance being nine miles ; and 

 that this brood could have been ha,tched on that rocky and tree- 

 less island seems very improbable. They were in company 

 with, yet holding aloof from, several pairs of Trbigoides mani- 

 larius \_Actiiis viacularia\y Doubtless occasional barren birds 

 remain about ponds throughout the breeding season in favored 



