The Ruff at Camden, Maine. — I wish to record the capture of a female 
Ruff ( Pavoncella pugnax ) at Camden, Maine, Sept. 14, 1900, by Mr. 
Sidney Clark. This skin I purchased of Charles K. Worthen, Warsaw, 
111- — John E. Thayer, Lancaster , Mass. 
Auk. XXII, Oc-.., 1900, p-'A’?. 
The Ruff at Seabrook, N. H. — On September 24, 1907, I received a 
specimen of a European Ruff ( Pavoncella pugnax) shot at Seabrook, N. H. 
The bird was a young female and the man who sent it to me said it was in 
company with a flock of ten or twelve Beetle-head Plover. 
I would like to add — as some one not very long ago stated in ‘ The 
Auk’ that he considered the Stilt Sandpiper extremely rare in Massachu- 
setts — that I have within two years received 18 or 20 birds of this species 
in one day from near Newbury port, Mass. — John H. Hardy, Jr., Arling- 
ton, Mass. Aq P t 26, Jaa I908,p* 
Se-<T-$rao&; It' •'V' 
Capture of the Ruff at Seabrook, N. H. — Mr. John Hardy of Boston 
has kindly presented me with- an adult female Ruff ( Pavoncella pugnax ) 
shot at Seabrook, N. H., Sept. 23, 1907, by Charles Fowler, who said it 
was with a flock of Black-bellied Plover. — John E. Thayer, Lancaster, 
Mass. 
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