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itor." Templeton : " Common summer resident." [Doubtless an error]. 

 Wellesley : "Migrant." 



80. Actitis macularia (Linn.). Spotted Sandpiper. 

 A very common summer resident. 



April 19 to October 5 (November 6). 



Amherst :" Common summer resident." Berkshire: " Common sum- 

 mer resident." Bristol County: "Common summer resident." Brook- 

 line: "A not uncommon inigrant." Cambridge; Common summer 

 resident. Cohasset : " Common in spring and fall ; a few breed." 

 Dedham : "Common." Essex County: " Summer visitant. Common." 

 Ipswich: "Abundant summer resident." Nantucket: "Common." 

 Springfield: "Abundant summer resident." Templeton: "Common 

 in summer." Wellesley: " Common summer resident." 



81. Pavoncella pugnax (Linn.). Ruff. 



Accidental from the Old World. The records are : Newburyport 

 Marshes, an adult female taken May 20, 187 1 ; ^- Chatham, a young 

 male [female?] shot September 12, 1880, as per label on the speci- 

 men which is now in the mounted collection of the Brookline High 

 School.^ 



82. Bartramia longicauda (Bechst.). Bartramian Sand- 

 piper. 



Formerly a not uncommon summer resident, but now occurring 

 chiefly as an uncommon spring and autumn migrant, and breeding 

 locally. 



April 10 to October i. 



Amherst: "A rare summer resident, not uncommon in the fall."' Berk- 

 shire : " Transient visitant in the spring and autumn." Bristol County : 

 "Rather common transient visitant." Cambridge: Not common transient 

 visitant. Cohasset: "One instance." Essex County: "April, and Au- 

 gust to October. Not abundant." Ipswich: "Not uncommon transient 

 visitant." Nantucket: "Common." Springfield: " Rather rare summer 

 resident, breeding iri Russell and Blandford." Templeton : " Not rare in 

 the autumn." [Breeds at Winchendon. — Brewster]. Wellesley: "Scarce 

 migrant." 



83. Ereunetes pusillus (Linn.). Sbmipalmated Sandpiper. 



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'Brewster; Amer. Nat., Vol. VI, No. 5, May, 1872, p. 306. 

 2 Forest and Stream, Vol. XV, No. 10, Oct. 7, 1880, p. i86. 



