Sometimes tolerably com- 
Bull.N.O. 0 , 7, Oct, 1882 , p, 256 
I94 . Limosa fceda. Marbled Godwit. 
mon about Lake Champlain in October. 
Lone Island Bird Notes. Wm. Dutcher 
g. Limosa fedoa. Marbled Godwit. — The ‘Brown Mar- 
lin’ of the Long Island gunners is at the. best a rare bird, and is 
looked on as a prize at any time. My experience in bay-bird 
shooting on the South Shore, dating back as it does for twelve 
years, is a blank regarding this species. Not only have I never 
shot one, but, I have never been so fortunate as to hear one utter 
its call note. Giraud says, “Arrives on the shores of Long 
Island in the month of May : it cannot be said to be an abundant 
species — still, we observe it visits us regularly every spring and 
autumn.”* August 12, 1881, one was sent to me from Shinne- 
cock Bay, by Mr. C. E. Perkins, of Hartford, Conn., an enthu- 
siastic sportsman, who spends many weeks every summei on 'the 
beaches and bars of that Indian-named bay. In 1883, Mr. Tal- 
madge, another sportsman habitui, of Shinnecock Bay, informed 
me That three Marbled Godwits had been shot between Septem- 
ber 1 and 8 by the sportsmen and their gunners who were shoot- 
ing on the bay. 
During 1884 I did not record any. During the spring of 18S5, 
none were seen at Shinnecock Bay, my infoimant being Geoige 
A. Lane, who, with his brothers, is shooting every day during the 
season. The summer and autumn of the same year produced 
four, and possibly five, records as follows : August 25, one was 
shot by Mr. W. M. Lawrence, a sportsman who was located 
at Allanticville, a hamlet near the western end of Shinnecock 
Bay. August 31, two were seen at the same place by L. E. 
Howell, a resident gunner. The same day one was seen by 
Mr. Perkins, some two miles further east. It was in all prob- 
ability one of the pair seen by Mr. Howell. September 15, Mr. 
Perkins reports one seen and. secured. 
Auk, at, Oot., 1889, p. 
* Birds of Long Island, p. 260. 
