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we made search for its nest which we soon found with four 
eggs in it. The situation selected for incubation could not 
have been better chosen in any portion of the country, as it was 
on a rising piece of ground, with a southern exposure, protected 
in the rear by a large wood, and at the foot of the high ground 
was a considerable extent of low marsh meadow watered by a 
never-failing stream, along the border of which the anxious 
parent at any time could obtain a bountiful supply of food.” 
Mr. Zacharia Laney, of Cumberland, informs me that he has 
taken this species from February 28 to the last of the 
gunning season, April 30; how much later they stay he does not 
know, but some years ago while exercising a pair of young dogs 
in June, they flushed a pair from a marshy slew. 
Macrorhamphus griseus (231). Dowitcher. 
Common during migration in tidewater Maryland during 
April and May, and from early in August to the first touch of 
cold weather; a specimen in the collection of Mr. A Resler was 
taken at Back River as early as March 6 (’75). Inland, Mr. 
Dukehart has secured a number in both spring and fall in Du- 
laney’s Valley. 
Macrorhamphus scolopaceus (232). Long-billed 
Dowitcher. 
Of this western species “seven were killed from a flock on 
the Anacostia River, D. C., in April, 1884, by a gunner who 
sold them in the market for Jack Snipe. One similar to the 
others was secured and mounted by one of the writers and has 
been identified by Mr. Ridgway as the western species” 
(Hugh M. Smith and Wm. Palmer, Auk, v, 147). 
Micropalama himantopus (233). Stilt Sandpiper. 
Casual migrant on the Atlantic coast, one was “taken on the 
Patuxent River, Md.,September 8,’85, by Mr. H. W. Henshaw. 
This capture was made beyond the regular District of Columbia 
