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but was told that the flight had not commenced. I also no- 

 ticed flocks of Crows, Meadowlarks, Red-winged Blackbirds, 

 and Sparrows, and Mourning- Doves were common. From 

 Leamington to the Gardner place I saw very few birds ; a few 

 Crows, Sparrows, a Dove and several Sharp-shinned, and one 

 Cooper's Hawks making up the list. In the afternoon I made 

 a short trip east of Gardner's to the beach and back, and ob- 

 served an immature male Sparrow Hawk and a Female Broad- 

 winged Hawk. I also patrolled over two miles of the beach 

 on the east sidei and toward the Point, but saw only the Spot- 

 ted Sandpiper, a Bald Eagle, a Brown Thrasher, and two 

 Marsh Hawks, both of the latter immature. 



September 15 — I made a trip to the west beach and 

 found three Spotted Sandpipers. A number of Sharp-shinned 

 Hawks hew over the woods, and twenty-five others were at 

 the end of the Point. Two Cooper's Hawks were also seen, 

 and about fifty Herring Gulls were resting on the sand spit 

 at the end of the Point. On the return trip I saw a Broad- 

 winged Hawk in the woods near the road. [The latter with 

 the one taken wSeptember 14 were the only ones seen by the 

 writer.] Other species observed were a Woodcock, and two 

 Bitterns in the marsh. In the afternoon I went up the east 

 beach to the fish camp, and on the way saw a Duck Hawk, a 

 flock of about twenty-five Yellow-legs flying south and high 

 up over the beach, a few Spotted Sandpipers on the beach, 

 one Hummingbird, two King Rails on the marsh side of the 

 beach, and two Green-winged Teal. Albert Gardner shot 

 to-day the first Coot seen and noticed a Whip-poor-will in the 

 door-yard in the early morning. 



September 16 — Early in the morning I worked out to the 

 end of the Point, and on the way saw flocks of warblers. 

 Those identified were the Myrtle, Black-poll, Bay-breasted, 

 Palm, Black-throated Blue. The Olive-backed Thrush was 

 also seen. These no doubt came to the Point during the 

 night as none were seen the day before. At the end of the 

 Point I saw the same hawks as yesterday, with the addition 

 of the Pigeon liawk. About two hundred Herring Gulls 



