Actodromas bairdii. RECENT OCCURRENCE OF BAIRD'S SANDPIPER (Tringa bairdi) IN MAINE. — So far as I am aware, we have but four recorded instances * of the capture of this Sandpiper in New England, but the following facts will seem to indicate that in certain localities, at least, it may be something more than a mere accidental visitor. On the evening of Sept. 4, 1880, while returning from a trip up Lake Umbagog (Oxford Co., Maine), and just as we were entering the mouth of Cambridge River, the guide called my attention to a flock of small Waders sitting on a mud-flat. I made out two of the number to be Ring-necked Plovers, but in the fading light it was difficult to distinguish colors, and as the remaining six looked unfamiliar I picked out one that stood a little apart and shot it. The others disappeared in the gloom and I picked up a specimen of Tringa bairdi. Early the next morning I again visited the spot but there were only six Ring-necks on the flat. On a neighboring mud-bar, however, I shortly found two Baird's Sandpipers feeding in company with an Ereunetes and all three were quickly secured. The Baird's Sandpipers proved to be a male and female, both birds of the year. They were so fat that their skins were preserved with the greatest difficulty. Whether they represented a part of the flock seen the evening before can of course only be a matter of conjecture. I have, however, good reasons for suspecting that the Baird's Sandpiper regularly occurs at Umbagog in small numbers during the autumnal migration. In view of its known distribution in the West it would be more likely to be found on interior ponds and marshes than along our sea-coast, where it is apparently a very rare species. The specimens above mentioned were very tame and I watched them for some time before disturbing them. Their motions were slow and sedate and their attitudes crouching. They kept up a low conversational twitter while feeding, and when flushed, flew in that swift, erratic way characteristic of most of the smaller Waders. The peculiar coloring of the upper parts gave them a striped appearance which should serve to distinguish them from any other eastern Sandpiper except Tryngites rufescens — WILLIAM BREWSTER, Cambridge, Mass. Bull. N.O.O., 6, Jan., 1881, p. 60-61. * Long Island, Boston Harbor, Aug. 27, 1870. Brewster, Am. Nat., VI, May, 1872, 306.— Lake Umbagog, Upton, Maine, Sept. 1, 1875. Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, I, April, 1876, 19.— Scarborough Beach, Maine, Sept. 9, 1875. Brown, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, II, January, 1877, 28.— Swampscott, Mass., Aug. 27, 1876. Brewer, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, III, July, 1878, 140.