Baroncella pugnax. Machetes pugnox. 1874. Maine (Lak o Umbagog). Sept. 8. Near the mouth of Cambridge River a strange-looking bird passed me within about sixty yards, flying with slow, easy wing-flaps like a Hawk. I shot at it, and it went down on a long incline, falling dead. Upon picking it up, I found it to be a Ruff. Itx was per- fectly silent. It proved a female, in good flesh but literally alive with parasites. L. Umbagog, Maine. Machetes Sept. 8 shot 1874 On the Occurrence of Certain Birds in New England -- Wm Brewster. Philomachus pugnax Gr. Female. Killed at Upton, Ox- ford County, Maine, September 8th, 1874. It was shot while flying on the marshes at the mouth of Cambridge River. My at- tention was attracted to it by its peculiar hawk-like flight, which, provided it be a constant attendant of its motions, should at once distinguish it while on wing from any other Tringæ. I am aware that this species has already been given in Mr. G. A. Boardman's "List of the Birds of Calais, Me.," but Dr. Brewer informs me that none of the specimens therein referred to were taken within Maine limits. The only authentic N. E. quotation that I can at present recollect is the record of a Mass. specimen in "Am. Nat.," vol. vi, p. 306. The occurrence of the present individual so far inland is worthy of remark. Bull. N.O.C. I, April, 1876. p. 19-20.