. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. RECURVIROSTRA AMERICANA: AMERICAN AVOCET. l8l country seldom visited, and New England is one of these. Here the bird is little more than a straggler, though not rare further South on the Atlantic coast. It thus becomes necessary to examine the records for cases of its occurrence among us. The record left by the Rev. Mr. Linsley is discred- ited by Mr. Merriam (Rev. B. Conn., 1877, p. 146) as resting upon insufficient evidence. But Mr. Merriam is able to furnish an
. New England bird life; being a manual of New England ornithology: ed. from the manuscript of Winfrid A. Stearns . Birds. RECURVIROSTRA AMERICANA: AMERICAN AVOCET. l8l country seldom visited, and New England is one of these. Here the bird is little more than a straggler, though not rare further South on the Atlantic coast. It thus becomes necessary to examine the records for cases of its occurrence among us. The record left by the Rev. Mr. Linsley is discred- ited by Mr. Merriam (Rev. B. Conn., 1877, p. 146) as resting upon insufficient evidence. But Mr. Merriam is able to furnish an authentic instance of the presence of. Fig. 41. —Head and Leg of Avocet. Reduced. the bird in Connecticut, one of his correspondents, Mr. J. G. Ely, writing to him, that a specimen was found in 1871, between Saybrook and East Lyme, in an old seine strung out on the beach to dry (Rev. B. Conn., 1877, p. 103). Dr. Brewer states this to be " the only instance of its capture within our limits that is on record, all the others having been extra-limital or without particulars " (Pr. Bost. Soc, xix, 1878, p. 307). Mr. G. A. Board- man had indeed noted some years before (Pr. Bost. Soc, ix, 1862, p. 128), the capture of a specimen in Maine, but this turned out to have been taken in New Bruns- wick. In 1875, therefore, Dr. Brewer removed the species from the New England List, with the following comments : " This has been placed among the Birds of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Stearns, Winfrid Alden, 1852-; Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899. Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C. T. Dillingham
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