General Notes. 
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peared in the gloom and I picked up a specimen of Tringa bairdi . Early 
the next morning I again visited the spot but there were only six Ring- 
necks on the flat. On a neighboring mud-bar, however, I shortly found 
two Baird’s Sandpipers feeding in company w r ith an Ereunetes and all 
three were quickly secured. The Baird’s Sandpipers proved to be a male 
and female, both birds of the year. They were so fat that their skins 
were preserved with the greatest difficulty. Whether they represented 
a part of the flock seen the evening before can of course only be a 
matter of conjecture. I have, however, good reasons for suspecting that 
the Baird’s Sandpiper regularly occurs at Umbagog in small numbers 
during the autumnal migration. In view of its known distribution in the 
West it would be more likely to be found on interior ponds and marshes 
than along Our sea-coast, where it is apparently a very rare species. 
The specimens above mentioned were very tame and I watched them 
for some time before disturbing them. Their motions were slow and 
sedate and their attitudes crouching. They kept up a low conversational 
twitter while feeding, and when flushed, flew in that swift, erratic way 
characteristic of most of the smaller Waders. The peculiar coloring of 
the upper parts gave them a striped appearance which should serve to 
distinguish them from any other eastern Sandpiper except Tryngites ru- 
fescens — William Brewster, Cambridge , Mass. 
Occurrence of Baird’s Sandpiper ( Tringa bairdi ) on the New 
Hampshire Coast. — While out on the marsh at Rye Beach, N. H., 
August 26, my attention was called by my companion to a “Large Peep,” 
as he called it. Upon shooting the bird we found it to be a Tringa bairdi. 
The same afternoon I obtained another specimen of this bird which was 
running along the beach in company with a large flock of Peeps. Both 
birds were very tame and allowed a quite near approach. This is the 
first record of this bird for New Hampshire. — Henry M. Spelman, 
Cambridge , Mass. 
Note on Tryngites rufescens in Texas. — The Buff-breasted 
Sandpiper is mentioned by Mr. Dresser and Dr. Merrill as occurring on 
the Rio Grande in Texas, but Mr. Sennett and Mr. McCauley did not note 
it. Professor Snow calls it rare in Kansas, and Dr. Coues did not meet 
with it in Dakota while with the Northern Boundary Survey. My ex- 
perience is that it is a bird whose occurrence is not to be relied upon in 
Cooke County, Texas. 
On April 23, 1877, I saw a flock here and noted no more until April 29, 
1880, when I saw two or three flocks of some half-dozen each, near Gains- 
ville. Not having my gun, I returned next day and scoured the same lo- 
cality without finding a single Tryngites. Thinking they were certainly 
on the large prairie west of Gainesville, I rode over that for half a day 
without seeing a Buff-breast, and gave up the search. On May 3, in riding 
through the same prairie where I saw the species in question, I came upon 
a flock of seven and, as before, wa§ without my gun. I procured one and 
shot four with the first barrel and one with the second ; following the re- 
maining two I secured them, and no more have been seen since. 
