Annotated List of Species ^I 



Cambridge : Casual, one instance, October. Cohasset : " Not rare in 

 late fall and winter." Essex County: "Winter. Rather rare." Spring- 

 field: " Accidental visitor." One instance, November. 



92. Tringa ferruginea Brunn. Curlew Sandpiper. 

 Accidental from the Old World. The records are : Cape Ann, 



one taken in the autumn of 1865 ;^ East Boston, one taken early 

 in May, 1866;^ Nahant, one taken about 1869;' Ipswich, one 

 taken abput 1875;' Cape Cod, one taken about May 10, 1878 ;3 

 Chatham, a male taken August 26, i88g, and now in the mounted 

 collection of the Brookline High School. ^ 



93. Tringa canutus Linn. Knot. 



An uncommon spring and autumn migrant along the coast, 

 rarely wintering. Casual inland.* 



May II to June 5 (June 15); July \t, to October 28; Winter. 



Bristol County: "Common transient visitant. Not so common in- 

 land." Cohasset : " Rare in spring, fairly common in the fall." Ipswich : 

 " Rather uncommon transient visitant." Nantucket: ''Scarce." Spring- 

 field: "Accidental visitor." Wellesley: " Casual inland." Lake Cochit- 

 uate. 



94. Tringa alpina Linn. European Dunlin. 



Accidental from the Old World. Mr. Charles J. Paine, Jr., per- 

 mits us to record here for the first time the capture of this species 

 in Massachusetts, on 'the basis of a female taken at Chaihafii, 

 August II, 1900, by Mr. J. S. Cochrane. This specimen is now 

 in Mr. William Brewster's collection (No. 48598). 



95. Tringa alpina pacifica (Coues). Red-backed Sand- 



P[PER. 



A rare spring and not uncommon autumn migrant on the coast. 



1 Samuels ; Ornithology and Oology of X. E., 1867, p. 444. 



^ Brewster; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Clul^, Vol. I, No. .;, July, 1876, pp. 51, 5.-. 



•■^Deane; Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. IV, No. 2, Apr., 1879, p. 124. 



■•Brewer; Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. XVII, 1875, p. 446. 



° Editor; O. & O., Vol. XV, No. 7, July, 1890, p. no. 



♦Mackay; Auk, Vol. X, No. i, Jan., 1893, pp. 25-35. 



