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An American O ystercatch er (mmatopuspallMus) was 
shot by Alonzo Nye, the veterant gunner, tomgth* ^latte 
part of April, 1885, near Monomoy Island.—!. C. Cahoon. 
O.&O. X. Oct. 1885. p JbO 
The Oyster-catcher (, Hcematopus falliatas) in Massachusetts.— Mr. 
Warren Hapgood tells me that during the last week of April, 1885, he 
received an Oyster-catcher in the flesh from Chatham, Mass It was shot 
on Monomov Island by Alonzo Nye, the veteran gunner ol Chatham It 
was in fine plumage, and is now preserved in Mr. Hapgood s collection. 
If I remember rightly this is only the third specimen known to have been 
taken in Massachusetts, the other two being the pair mentioned by Dr. 
Brewer (Water Birds, Vol. I,p. 1 13), and now in the New England collection 
of the Boston S 0 ciety.-W 1 iA.TAM Brewster, Cambridge. Mass. 
Ank, 2, Oct. , 1886. p. 3 % H ■ 
Shore Birds of Cape Cod. 
John C. Gaboon. 
American Oyster-catcher, Ilcematopus ostra- 
leyus , (Linn.) A rare visitor on the Cape coast. 
1 have one instance of its occurrence of late 
years, that of a specimen taken near Monomoy 
Island during the latter part of April, 1885, as 
recorded in the O. & O., Vol. 10, No. 10, I880. 
O &0. XIII. Oct. 1888 p.156 
cA^j\qJXA $ . 
American Oyster-catcher ( Hcematopus palliatus ) . — Mr. 
Charles A. Hardy of Auburndale, Massachusetts, has very gen- 
erously contributed to my New England collection an adult male 
Oyster-catcher which, with a female, also said to be an adult and 
probably the mate of the first, he shot at Chatham, Massachusetts, 
August — , 1899. He writes me that “ they came in beautifully 
to decoys and my whistle and were the only ones I have ever 
seen there,” i. e., at Chatham. Both specimens were skinned by 
Mr. M. Abbott Frazar; the female remains in Mr. Hardy’s pos- 
session. I have an impression that a brief mention of the cap- 
ture of these birds has already appeared in print, but my assistant, 
Mr. Walter Deane, has searched in vain for such a record. 
Ank, XVIII, April., 1901, p„ ' 36 . 
