240 Nichols and Harper, Long Island Shore Birds. [j„1y 



•of them in the fall come to stool from the eastward and leave to 

 the westward, though usually there is also a small minority travel- 

 ing in the opposite or other directions. Here the birds generally 

 appear at about sunrise, and are most abundant early in the day. 



The present paper aims to furnish an account of the migrations, 

 haunts, social and feeding habits, call-notes, field characters, and 

 general activities of eleven species of shore birds, as we have ob- 

 served them on Long Island. The migration data have been 

 gathered from every available source, including not only the pub- 

 lished writings of Dutcher,^ Cooke,^ Braislin,* and Eaton,^ but also 

 the manuscript records of a number of other ornithologists, chiefly 

 fellow-members of the Linnsean Society of New York. For co- 

 operation in this and other respects we are glad to express our 

 appreciation and indebtedness to Messrs. William Floyd, Ludlow 

 Griscom, Arthur H. Helme, William Helmuth, Stanley V. LaDow, 

 Roy Latham, Robert Cushman Murphy, Chas. H. Rogers, H. F. 

 Stone, Henry Thurston, and J. A. W^eber. We also have to 

 thank Dr. Frank Overton for generously permitting the use of 

 his photographs of the Northern Phalarope. All the other pho- 

 tographs were taken by the writers. 



In the case of each species we have endeavored to give the 

 •earliest and latest migration dates, together with the locality and 

 the observer's or the recorder's name wherever possible. In addi- 

 tion to the scientific names and the accepted English names, as 

 given in the A. O. U. Check-List, we include a number of local 

 names that are in more or less common use on Long Island. 



Lobipes lobatus. Northern Phalarope. — Uncommon transient 

 visitant. In following its usual migi-ation route, this phalarope seems to 

 pass at some distance off the Long Island coast, but occasionally (and 

 especially during stormy weather) it reaches our shores. The spring 

 dates range from April 2, 1911 (Long Cove, Overton and Harper), to 

 June 3, 1894 (Montauk Point, Scott); the fall dates, from August 5, 1893, 

 to October 22, 1888 (Montauk Point, Scott). 



1 Numerous records furnished for Chapman's Handbook of Birds of Eastern North 

 America (1894) and for Eaton's Birds of New York (1910). 



2 Distribution and Migration of North American Shore Birds. Washington, 1910. 



3 A List of the Birds of Long Island, N. Y: Abstr. Proc. Linn. Soc. N. Y., Nos. 17-19, 

 _1907. 



« The Birds of New York, Part L Aliiany, 1910. 



