Limicolae in Bristol County . 
H. F. Dexter, Dartmouth, Mass. 
Red-backed Sandpiper, Pelidna alpina ameri- 
cana. Occasionally seen in autumn, but the 
majority pass us by in the migration, keeping- 
well off the coast. 
O.&O. XII. Sept. 1887 p.148 
Birds of Bristol County , Mass. 
F.W. Andros. 
Tringa alpina paciflca (Coues.), Red-backed 
Sandpiper. Migrant, tolerably common in 
spring and fall. A few seen in summer. 
O.&O. XII. Sept. 1887 p.138 
The Red-backed Sandpiper in Massachusetts in December. — Mr. 
George C. Shattuck gave me a Red-backed Sandpiper ( Pelidna alpina 
pacifica') which he* shot on Barnstable Neck, Mass., on December 23, 1903. 
It was in company with another of its kind. — Reginald Heber Howe, 
Jr., Concord, Mass. Attk, XXI, Apr., 1904, p . ^7% 
Old Records or Mass A Rhode Id. 
October 4, 1877. Shot two Red-backed Sandpipers ( Pisobia alpina 
sakhalina) . 
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