YlriZ ovo Kw ..A.H. 
2. Micropalama himantopus. Stilt Sandpiper. - A Jgl^P e «‘ 
men in company with one Garnbetta flampes, was shot July 2u 1878, at 
Nantucket. Ve capture is interesting on account of 
date. [See this Bulletin, Vol. Ill, p. 148.] [ 1?— — • 
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Rare Birds Taken at Cape Cod.— An adult female 
Stilt S andpiper ( Micropalama himantopus,) in partly Fall 
plumage, was shot at Monomoy Island, in company with 
some Sanderlings, Aug. 5th, 1885. It was shot by a gunner 
who gave it to me, and although it was pretty well shot up, 
it made a fair skin. X. Oct.l885.p./W 
Shore Birds of Cape Cod. 
JohnC. Gaboon. 
Stilt Sandpiper, Micropalama himantopus 
(Bonap.) A tolerably common summer and 
autumn migrant. It is seen on the Cape be- 
tween the last week in July and the first in 
September. Most of them seen at Monomoy ! 
Island are during the first or second week in 
August. It is usually seen on the flats and 
beaches in company with sanderlings and 
Ereunetes pusillus , and with the exception of 
being more shv its habits are the same. 
O.&O. XIII. Aug. 1888 p. 12 S. 
, 1895, p.J/0- 
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A short time after 
I shot a Stilt Sandpiper ( Micropalama himantopus) from this same 
flock of Peeps. I saw in addition another specimen which had been 
taken in the same locality two days before. 
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Auk, XIII, Jan. , 1896, P- 9% _ 
AcJc^tL ' Jlc-Ccd . 
Micropalama himantopus. — On Aug. 29, 1895, a female was taken at 
Ilummock Pond. On Aug. 31, I shot another at the same place. This 
pond is a very large one. On Aug. 29, with some friends, aided by a 
horse and scoop, I dug a trench to the ocean, thereby draining it, hoping 
that the margins thus exposed would offer an inducement for some of 
the migrants to tarry. S 'ft* c^c lia.y y ^Z^u. cU-zJc • 
