THE SHORE PATROL 
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the far North through the interior of the United States. The 
first flight off New England seems to occur about the last ten 
days of August, and is only of adult birds. The young do not 
reach us till about the middle of September. The young 
Golden Plovers used to frequent, in late September, the 
“ Back-Bay marshes ” of Boston, which I then considered 
a splendid plover ground ; but this is a thing of the past. 
TURNSTONES. “THE BIRDS FED UP NEAR TO ME 
The desire to see more of the shore-birds, rapidly becom¬ 
ing scarce on the New England coast, started me off, a few 
seasons ago, about the middle of August, along the eastern 
coast of Nova Scotia. I kept travelling until I found an 
ideal spot, — fine lonely sand-beaches pounded by the surf, 
extensive salt marshes back of them, and an inlet whose 
sand-flats furnished unsurpassed feeding-ground for hosts of 
shore-birds. The very first birds I saw were four Hudsonian 
Curlews walking about in their sedate fashion in the dry 
sand and grass above the beach on which were sporting 
flocks of smaller shore-birds. I had seen enough to convince 
