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a' few remain in the vicinity of Toledo, and in Erie, Ottawa, Crawford, 
and Marion counties. Mr. R. E. Neil informs me that a few years since a 
few remained at Radnon, Delaware Co. — J. M. Wheaton, Columbus , 0 . 
The Great WhiteEgret in New Brunswick. — Mr. C. J. Maynard 
has informed me of the capture of an immature specimen of Ardea egretta, 
which he examined in the flesh, shot at Whitehead, Island of Grand 
Menan, on the 3d November, 1878. It is a singular fact that so many 
instances have occurred in late years of southern species having wandered 
north to New England and more northern localities in the fall and winter 
months. Besides a bird of this species recorded for Nova Scotia by Mr. 
J. Matthew Jones of Halifax, this is, I think, the most northern locality 
in which this bird has been detected. — Ruthven Deane, Cambridge , 
Mass. 
The Stilt Sandpiper. {Micropalama ldmantopus ) on the New Jer- 
sey Coast. — During my stay at Squam Beach, N. J., last summer, from 
July 15 to September 15, ten Stilt Sandpipers were shot there. Nearly 
all were killed about September 1, and, excepting a flock of three, all were 
single birds. Six are now in my possession. I believe the Stilt Sand- 
piper has been rarely taken in New Jersey, as I know of but one other 
recent capture. 
This species will now have been recorded, in numbers, all along the Maine, 
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Long Island, and New Jersey coasts, at 
suitable places from Portland, Me., to Squam Beach, N. J., showing not only 
that it is a regular migrant, but also that there is every probability of its 
being taken farther north and farther south. It would now seem that it 
can hardly be regarded as a rare straggler on that part of the Atlantic 
coast from Maine to New Jersey. The question arises, Has the Stilt 
Sandpiper been much overlooked, or has it, of late years, increased in 
abundance? — J. Dwight, Jr., Cambridge , Mass. 
Notes on New England Birds. — Mr. George II. Mackay furnishes 
me with the following memoranda, which are not without interest. 
1. Gallinula galeata. Florida Gallinule. — An immature bird 
was shot late in the autumn of 1872, probably in October, near the north 
end of Hummock Pond, Nantucket. The specimen is now in the collec- 
tion of the Boston Society of Natural History. 
2. Micropalama himantopus. Stilt Sandpiper. — A single speci- 
men, in company with one Gambetta Jlavipes, was shot July 25, 1878, at 
Nantucket. The capture is interesting on account of locality and its early 
date. [See this Bulletin, Yol. Ill, p. 148.] 
3. Gallinago wilsoni. Wilson’s Snipe. — Obtained August 29, at 
Nantucket. 
4. iEgialitis meloda. Piping Plover. — Taken at Nantucket as 
early as April 14, 1878. 
