Shore-bird Notes.— -Last September, Wilson’s Phalarope appears to 
have been not uncommon along the Atlantic Coast. I have never seen 
this species before, although I shot a Northern Phalarope at Quogue L I 
during the month of August, 1907. I have the following records ’of the 
occurrence of Wilson’s Phalarope. Adult female shot by Mr. Whitlock 
at Quogue on September 4. Immature in winter plumage were shot near 
Currituck Light House, North Carolina, by Mr. Whitlock and Mr. Nourse 
on September 7, September 8 (two), and September 12. A well-marked 
female was seen by me September 14. This bird was so tame that it 
allowed me almost to touch it before it flew away in a zigzag manner. An 
old gunner at Currituck had never seen these birds before. 
The Buff-breasted . Sandpi per seems also to have been unusually common 
along the coast. Mr. Whitlock shot a specimen at Quogue, L. I. on Sep- 
tember 4, and three at Currituck on September 12. I saw a flock of six 
at the same place on September 14. This species was also unknown to the 
local gunners. 
On September 11, at Currituck, I shot a Solitary Sandpiper on a sandv 
beach. I have frequently seen this bird in woodland streams but never 
near salt water. 
On September 12, two Marbled Godwits were shot by Mr. Whitlock and 
myself at Currituck. The female was the smaller, measuring 17.00 and the 
male 19.25. The absence of bars on the underparts would indicate that 
they were young birds. 
I trust these records may be of interest, both as individual records 
and also as showing the tendency of certain western Shore-birds to follow 
the same line of migration to the shores of North Carolina as is later fol- 
owed m far greater numbers by the Canvas-back, the Mallard, and the 
V\ hustling Swan.— Frederick Wm. Kobb£, New York City. 
Attk 29 . Jan. 1912, p. /a&. 
