20 A NATURALIST IN THE MAGDALEN ISLANDS. 
the other. In trying to do too much, I did nothing; for I 
only obtained one Teal. Later in the fall, this is a grand 
place for Geese, which come in here to drink and wash them- 
selves in the numerous pools of partly fresh water. 
On this day we made quite a varied bag, which I give 
in detail :— 
Hudsonian Curlew ; I 
Hudsonian Godwits . 2 
Blackbreast Plover : 20 
Golden Plover 
Semipalmated Plover . : 9 
Turnstones | 
Greater Yellowlegs ; 12 
Yellowlegs . ; : 9 
Least Sandpipers . ‘ 7 
White-rumpled Sandpipers . : 13 
Pectoral Sandpiper =) : 1 
American Dunlin. ,; ; I 
Semipalmated Sandpipers. 5 
Wilson’s Snipe. 2 
Red-breasted Snipe 4 
Teal I 
Blue Heron . ! : I 
