68 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 71. 



nearly all the forenoon, and there must have been many thou- 

 sand of them that passed over the lake, while hundreds turned 

 back and lingered on the Point. [During the three days that 

 this flight continued, and for the rest of my stay, or until Oc- 

 tober 15, I found the Sharp-shinned common. The later birds 

 were nearly all adults.] I saw one Osprey on this date, and 

 on the east beach one Semipalmated Plover. A flight of 

 Woodcock occurred last night. 



September 21 — I was busy with specimens all the forenoon 

 to-day, but in the afternoon I walked to the end of the Point. 

 I found the beach deserted, a single Brown Thrasher only be- 

 ing observed. Saunders told me that the rest of the hawks 

 crossed the lake in the forenoon. In all the region where the 

 day before I saw hundreds I did not see even one. All the 

 small birds had also left the Point the previous night. At the 

 end of the Point a large flock of Herring Gulls were resting 

 on the sand spit. Toward evening I saw a Sharp-shinned 

 Hawk coming from the north, and one Downy Woodpecker. 



September 22 — I made a trip to the Point and found only 

 one Sharp-shinned Hawk, one flicker, and on the east beach 

 one Pectoral Sandpiper. I also made a trip north from Al- 

 bert Gardner's for a mile and then east to the marsh, seeing 

 two Sharp-shinned Hawks, two Flickers, a few Chipping and 

 Field Sparrows, and one Marsh Hawk. 



The Gardner boys went to the big marsh and reported a 

 number of Black Duck, which they estimated at one hundred, 

 about the same number of Wood Duck, ten Bitterns, nine 

 Coots, ten Green FTerons, one Black-bellied Plover, fifty 

 Green-winged Teal, twenty Semipalmated Sandpipers, twenty 

 L-east Sandpipers, twenty Black-crowned Night Herons, twen- 

 ty Semipalmated Plovers, thirty Florida Gallinules, one Duck 

 Hawk, ten Sora Rails, one King Rail, two Mrginia Rails, 

 one Killdeer, two Great Blue Herons, one hundred fifty 

 Blue-winged Teal, fifty Wilson's Snipe, fifty Crows, three 

 Kingfishers, and fifty Pectoral Sandpipers. The water in the 

 marsh is low, exposing bogs that aff'ord rich feeding ground 

 for all sorts of waders. This is late in the season for many 



