A Bird New to Massachusetts. — Among the Sandpipers collected by me 
years ago in Massachusetts I find a single specimen of the Western 
Sandpiper ( Ereunetes occidentalis'), taken on Long Island, Boston Harbor, 
Aug. 27, 1870. It was one of a number of -Peeps’ shot on that day, and 
it is by no means unlikely that the lot contained others of this species, 
which were overlooked under the impression that they were all the com- 
mon species, E. pusillus. Like the Baird's Sandpiper, this species may 
be expected to occur in small numbers along the Atlantic coast during the 
migrations, especially in fall. — II. W. Henshaw, Washington , D. C. 
Auk, 2, Oct. , 1886. p. J S'*/ . 
An Addition to the List of the Shore 
Birds of Cape Cod. 
The summer and autumn of 1888 was an ex- 
ceptionally good one for the occurrence of rare 
shore birds at Monomoy Island. The capture 
of several Stilt Sandpipers in breeding plum- 
age, Baird’s Sandpiper, and Red Phalarope 
lias been recorded in the O. & O., and I wish 
to add the Western S andpiper to the list. In 
July I shot a Sandpiper on the meadows, which 
showed, much rusty or bay in the coloration of 
its upper parts. Early in September, Messrs. 
Webster, Bishop, Whiting, Castle and myself 
shot a number of sandpipers on the meadows, 
and Mr. Whiting called our attention to one he 
had shot as having an unusually long bill for a 
Semipalmated, and expressed his opinion that 
it was ii rare sandpiper. Dr. Bishop -and my- 
self took the measurements anil,, decided it to 
be E. Occident, alia. Upon examining my spec- 
imen taken in July we found it to be occiden- 
talis in the spring plumage. Several others 
were found in the lot of Semipalmated taken 
by the above named gentlemen and 'several 
were taken by Dr. Bishop and myself a week 
or so later. One or two of them being shot on 
the sand flats, I am inclined to believe that 
this bird, is not uncommon about Monomoy in 
the autumn migration of ' Sandpipers, as it 
would easily pass for Semipalmated unless 
taken in the hand and closely examined. 
John C. Cahoon. 
CtePe Cod, G.B. Miller, Jr, 
Ereunetes occidentalis.— Although I searched carefully for this species 
during the autumn of 1888 and summer of 1889, I failed to detect it until 
September 2, 1889, when I obtained a fine adult male from a gunner who 
had killed the bird on the beach, about two miles north of Highland 
Light, on the ocean side of the Cape. This is the only specimen that I 
have met with on Cape Cod, and the species must be rare, or at least ir- 
regular, at North Truro, as I have examined large numbers of Ereunetes 
in search of the western bird. yil. J ulyj lQQQj p , . 
Auk, XIII, Jan. , 1896, p.%9 
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Ereunetes occidentalis. — Aug. 29, 1895. Four birds taken at the Hum- 
mock Pond, three of which proved on dissection to be females. These 
are the only ones I have observed here. 
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O &0. Xiw Sept. 188ff p.^41 
Occurrence of the Western Sandpiper ( Ereunetes occidentalis ) in Num- 
bers on the Coast of Massachusetts. — -Among some Waders collected in 
1888 on Monomoy Island, near Chatham, Massachusetts, I find four 
unmistakable specimens of Ereunetes occidentalis. Three of them, all 
females, were taken by Mr. j. C. Cahoon, one July 19, the other two Sept. 
19. The fourth, a male, was shot Sept. 1 by Mr. Whiting. The July 
bird is an adult in richly colored and but little worn breeding plu- 
mage. The others are young in summer dress. 
Mr. Cahoon tells me that he killed many specimens of the E. occiden- 
talis at Monomoy during July, August, and September, 1888, but suppos- 
ing at the time that they were merely large, long-billed examples of E. 
pusillus , he preserved only the three above mentioned. His impression 
is that they were nearly as numerous at times as E. pusillus. There 
is, I believe, but one previous record of the occurrence of E. occidentalis 
in Massachusetts, viz., that by Mr. Henshaw* of the capture of a speci- 
men on “Long Island, Boston Harbor, Aug. 27, 1870.” — William Brew- 
ster, Cambridge, Mass. Auk, VI. J&B. , 188W.*». £<7 
*Auk, Vol. II, N0.4, 1885, p. 384. 
