

638 NOTES ON SOME OF THE 
coast of New Jersey, where it is said to breed.* In my 
Catalogue I inserted it as a bird of this state on the authority 
of Dr. Brewer, who, according to Mr. Peabody, found them 
abundant at Nahant in August, 1838. But Dr. Brewer 
wrote me under date of May 8th, 1869, that "Wilson's 
Plover is not a Massachusetts bird, so far as I know." Dr. 
Wood informs me that "Wilson's Plover is abundant in 
August on Long Islaud," and Mr. Linsley has recorded it 
from Stratford, Connecticut. It hence seems unquestionable 
that they sometimes occur in Southern New England, and it 
would not be strange if they should occasionally reach the 
coast of Massachusetts. f 
BLACK-NECKED STILT. Himantopus nigricollis Vieill. Mr. 
G. A. Boardman informs me that he once saw two specimens 
of this species in Boston Market that were killed in this 
state. I have also learned from Mr. Maynard that it is well 
known to the gunners of Ipswich, who occasionally meet 
with it, and by whom it is ironically named “Humility.” It 
appears to be, however, one of the rarest of our visitors, it 
being properly a southern and south-western species. 
SANDERLING, Calidris arenaria Illiger. A few specimens 
of this species and of the Semipalmated Sandpiper (Ereu- 
netes pusillus Cass.), and the Solitary Sandpiper (JzAyaco- 
philus solitarius Baird), were taken by Mr. Maynard and 
myself at Ipswich in June, 1868. The last mentioned may 
have been breeding, as the Massachusetts coast is within its 
usual breeding range, but the others appeared to be only 
stragelers that were not breeding, all, apparently, being im- 
mature birds. The first of these is well known to breed on 
the coast of Maine, where Prof. Verrill gives it as abundant 
in summer. In some notes hastily penned for Dr. Coues’ 
“Addenda” to his “List of the Birds of New England,” 
written from memory (at the time of writing them I was on 

ens C Abbott, Geology of New Jersey, Appendix. 
us with this Dr. Coues’ remarks on this species in his “ List of the Birds of 
des T c wd €., p. 291. 
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