Vol. XXXVIII 



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ig2o Helmuth, Notes while in Naval Service. ADD 



EXTRACTS FROM NOTES MADE WHILE IN NAVAL 

 SERVICE 



BY W T. HELMUTH 



In the fall of 1917 the ship on which I served as seaman was 

 assigned to inspection duty on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the 

 United States, under Rear-admiral C. McR. Winslow's flag. We 

 left the navy yard at Brooklyn on October 20, 1917, and proceeded 

 up the New England coast as far as Machiasport, Maine, which 

 we reached on November first. We then journeyed south, close 

 inshore, up the Delaware River to Philadelphia, thence to Nor- 

 folk, Va., arriving on Thanksgiving day. We left Norfolk on 

 February 23, 1918, proceeding south to Key West, Fla. From 

 here we went directly to Pensacola, Fla. ; from Pensacola to New 

 Orleans, up the south pass of the Mississippi; from New Orleans 

 to Galveston, Texas; thence to Port Arthur, Texas, and across 

 the Gulf of Mexico to Tampa, Fla., arriving on April 1, 1918. 

 From Tampa our course took us again to Key West, up the east 

 coast of Florida to Jacksonville, and thence north to Charleston, 

 S. C, stopping at Brunswick and Savannah, Ga. 



During this time I had excellent opportunities to study the 

 birds met with offshore, and a few chances to watch land birds 

 on our all too infrequent "liberties" in various places. Some of 

 these notes may be of interest to readers of ' The Auk, ' and I ap- 

 pend them herewith. 



My very sincere thanks are due to Mr. John Treadwell Nichols, 

 of the American Museum of Natural History, who was kind enough 

 to read the original, and perhaps too voluminous, notes, and whose 

 suggestions have been invaluable in the separation of the wheat 

 from the chaff. 



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Notes from New England Coast North of Cape Cod, Autumn 



of 1917. 



Across Massachusetts Bay from Provincetown to Boston, 

 late October. Boston toward Machiasport, Me., sixty-sixty-five 

 miles offshore, October 31; to Machiasport and Bar Harbor, in- 



