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Bowman station in Randolph, produced by the overflow from 

 the watering tank for engines. In the fall migration a single 

 bird has also been several times seen about a pool in a barnyard 

 or by a mere roadside puddle. The latest dates in the autumn 

 have been : 1904, September 26, three in a partly submerged 

 field in lyancaster, one being seen there again on October 5, 

 when a flock of five Pectoral Sandpipers was present; 1905, 

 October 2, one about the foul water of a barnyard across the 

 Connecticut from I^ancaster ; 1909, one at Muddy Pond on 

 September 27. In 19 10 seven birds were seen successively 

 between August 10 and September 10 on the shores of six of 

 the diflerent ponds. 



40. Bartramia longicauda. Upland Pi^over. 



A rare migrant and summer resident. Mr. Spaulding fur- 

 nishes the record of a pair seen in Lancaster in 1895 from May 

 to September. He states that " they were undoubtedly breed- 

 ing, as they remained in one field a number of weeks and were 

 ver}' noisy." 



I am informed by Mr. Marble that on August 19, 1909, at 

 about 7:30 in the evening Mr. Nathan Cliflord Brown heard a 

 bird of this species calling near the Crawford House ; that it 

 answered the call which Mr. Brown gave, and remained in 

 hearing for a few minutes. Mr. Brown writes me, " The Plover 

 was flying rapidly south, along the easterly side of the Crawford 

 plateau. It whistled repeatedly and very clearly, whether in 

 response to my own whistling or not." 



41. Actitis macularia. Spotted Sandpiper. 



A rather common summer resident along Israel's River and 

 the larger brooks and about the ponds. Later in the summer 

 individuals are sometimes seen quite far up the South Branch, 

 four miles or more within the forest, at an elevation of 2000 feet 

 or so. I have no October records and but one record in the 

 second half of September, namely, on the 22d in 1903. And for 

 the first half of the month the records are few, the species 

 seeming to remain but few days into September. 



