Tryngites subrufi colli s . 
My bro ther Geo . N . Lamb 
East Orleans, Mass. 
has a specimen of the Buff- 
breasted Sandpiper, female, in his collection, which he shot 
at East Orleans, Sept.l, 1395. This bird was "with a peep, 
standing on newly mowed salt meadow". This is a bird I have 
always been on the lookout for and have never seen one alive, 
that I know of, and never one shot by any other gunner, when 
I was out shooting. 
George knew of one other specimen being shot at East Or- 
leans, and these are the only two instances which I know of 
its being taken in that neighborhood, x x x I think about here 
the Buff-breasted is a very much rarer bird than the Stilt 
Sandpiper. Chas.R.Lamb in litt. to Wm. Brewster, Cambridge 
Oct. 2, 1302. 
17lt> n a ilia'll 55" &-> C f- 
Buff -breasted Sandpiper ( Tryngites subruficollia) .— On September 4, 
1909, I shot a female specimen on Monomoy Island, Chatham, Mass. 
There was an easterly storm the day previous making it very improbable 
that the bird had just arrived. For that reason, and because of the fact 
that the bird was fat and in excellent condition, it seems likely that it 
had been there several days. I was walking through the meadows where 
the salt grass had been cut looking for Pectoral Sandpipers when this bird 
flew up. As I was on the lookout for anything odd that day I immediately 
recognized it as it rose. It is now in my collection. On enquiring of a few 
people in Chatham, Mr. Russell Bearse, a reliable local gunner, informed 
me that nearly every year during the flight of Pectoral Sandpipers in Sep- 
tember he had killed one of these birds on these same meadows. He is 
on the grounds regularly several days a week and is the best informed 
person in the neighborhood. This only goes to show that there are un- 
doubtedly more of these birds killed than is known about. 
Aak j7.Apr-ieio P. Z/9-Z20, 
