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localities. Thus Mr. C. F. Goodhue writes me of one which he 

 observed in June, feeding about a small pond near the summit 

 of South Kearsarge Mountain, and Mr. G. H. Tha3'er writes 

 that he has repeatedl}^ obser^^ed them in the breeding season on 

 a small wood pond at an elevation of about 1,580 feet at the 

 northeastern end of Mt. Monadnock. About the last of July 

 the migrating birds appear rather commonly along the water- 

 ways and ponds, and usually spend the day quietly feeding. 

 During the last week of August, 1897, I several times found as 

 mau}^ as 13 or 14 birds congregated about a small drain at Inter- 

 vale, to feed, but when closel}- approached, they would fly off one 

 or two at a time in different directions. In early September, I 

 have occasionall}^ seen single individuals about the little lakes 

 in Carter Notch, at 3,360 feet. Here_ they would remain all 

 day, feeding along the shore, and pass on southward after dark, 

 sometimes calling loudly as the}^ departed. Occasionally, too, 

 I have seen single birds in the latter part of a summer afternoon, 

 with steady graceful flight, passing southward down the Saco 

 valley. Mr. C. J. Maj-nard ('72) has noted a single bird at 

 Errol, in the northern part of the state, so late as " November 

 I St, 1869, when the ground was covered with snow and the 

 ponds were partl}^ frozen." 



Dates : May 9 to June ; Jul}- 17 to November i. 



84. Pavoiicella pugiiax (Linn.). Ruff. 



An accidental visitant from the old world. The bird is in- 

 cluded here on the strength of a female obtained by Mr. William 

 Brewster ('76a) on September 8, 1874, while it was "flying on 

 the marshes at the mouth of the Cambridge river," which is 

 nearly on the boundary line between New Hampshire and 

 Maine, at the southern end of Lake Umbagog. 



85. Bartramia longicauda (Bechst.). Bartramian 

 Sandpiper. 



Formerly a common summer resident of the upland fields and 

 pastures in the southern and central parts of the state, and a 

 common spring and fall migrant. Of late years, however, it 

 has become scarce or has entirely disappeared from its old lo- 



