FROM A NOTE BOOK OF MANASSEH CUTLER. 127 



they rose. After chipping loudly & distinctly a few times, 

 rise & descend again as before. These flight are contin- 

 ued thro' y® first of y" evening, and perhaps y'" night. 

 By observing y^ place from whence they rise, & after they 

 are goine up it [is] ease take a stand near the spot, & to 

 shoot them after they descend, especially in y^ first of y* 

 twilight, before it is too dark to distinguish them. 



Ox-Eye. Charadrius [now Squatarola.'] In abun- 

 dance on all our sandy beaches — remarkable for running — 

 for they never walk. In running y'' legs are moved with 

 surprizing agility & quickness — sometimes even on y® 

 edge of y® surf — but frequently wander about single on 

 high sandy beaches — they have a sort of peeping note — 

 not noisy — rarely use their note except when pursued, 

 & just as they take wing — they do not seem nuich in- 

 clined to collect in flocks. I believe some people call 

 thenijjee/js. They are remarkably fat at all seasons & 

 well tasted, except a little fishy. 



This spec'^ killed at Beach at Nauhaunt. 



June 13, 1795. In a sand hill on y® great Beach in 

 Ipswich, I observed several holes, which entered in an 

 horizontal direction. Passing my cane into one of them 

 I introduced nearly y*^ whole length, but did not perceive 

 y^ end. As I took it out a small swallow flew from an- 

 other hole about 4 feet distant, & instantly another came 

 out of hole into which I had introduced ray cane. The 

 wind being very high, & their flight quick I was unable 

 to observe, with any exactness, their colour or size. I 

 think their bellies were whitish & their size much less 

 than y* barn swallow. This is y*" first positive evidence 

 I have had of Swallows enterinir those holes. 



