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436 NicHots, Murray anp Griscom, Long Island Notes. Oct. 
1. Birds much commoner at the eastern end of the island than 
the western: Three Grebes, the Red-throated Loon, the Alcide, 
the Jaegers, the Glaucous Gull, Laughing Gull, the Terns, the - 
Shearwaters, Leach’s Petrel, most of the Anseres, the Cormorants, 
the Bittern, Coot, Phalaropes, Dowitcher, Stilt Sandpiper, Knot, 
Purple Sandpiper, White-rumped Sandpiper, Baird’s Sandpiper, 
Golden Plover, Rough-legged Hawk, Bald Eagle, Duck Hawk, 
Fish Hawk, Short-eared Owl, Snowy Owl, Snow Bunting, Lapland 
Longspur, Cliff Swallow. 
2. The following water-birds are equally common at both ends 
of the island: Loon, Kittiwake, Gannet, Red-breasted Merganser, 
Black Duck, Scaup Duck, Old-squaw, White-winged and American 
Scoters, Canada Goose, Brant, Herons, the commonest shore-birds. 
3. The following are commoner at the western end: Great 
Black-backed, Herring, Ring-billed and Bonaparte’s Gulls, Clapper 
Rail, Sora, Florida Gallinule, Orchard Oriole, Seaside Sparrow. 
From this list are excluded several of the rarer land-bird migrants, 
the greater number of records from the western end of the island 
being due to the greater number of observers. 
4. Species which have increased in numbers at the western end 
of the island in the last few years due largely to the abolition of 
spring shooting: A. Red-breasted Merganser, Black Duck, Scaup 
Duck, all three Scoters, Canada Goose and Brant. All but the 
last two now stay in numbers until the end of May. The Black 
Duck now probably breeds as far west as Long Beach. B. Form- 
erly very rare, now regular in spring are the Dowitcher, Knot and 
Red-backed Sandpiper. C. Greatly increased in numbers are 
especially the Hudsonian Curlew, Black-bellied Plover, Piping 
Plover and Turnstone. The Piping Plover now probably breeds 
as far west as Jones Beach, where pairs are seen the very end of 
May. Much less common in the fall. 
In the present paper, we have also gathered together a few records 
which we hope will be of service to the numerous observers now 
interested in Long Island birds. 
Podilymbus podiceps. Priep-BinLeEp Grese.— Unusually numerous 
in the fall migration of 1916; about 20 were observed in one day (Sept. 18) 
in the East Bay at Mastic. One observed on Prospect Park Lake, Brook- 
lyn, Oct. 12. 
