2QA. Ge/ierul Nofes. fjuly 



Scoters, flying towards the east on migration. There has been no hirge, 

 define(i movement since the one on April 4. 



yVpril 11. — Rain in tiie night, cloiiciy in the moining, wind south-south- 

 east, light fog all day, with rain from three o'clock p.m. until sunset, sea 

 quite heavy. A large flight of Scoters flying towards the east on mi- 

 gration. 



April 23. — Pleasant, wind southwest all day. A large flight of Scoters 

 towards the eastward on migration. 



April 24. — Very pleasant and warm, wind southwest, light air, until 

 late in the afternoon; it then changed to north. Not much worth 

 noting. 



April 25. — Wind north in the morning, and cold, ice half an inch tiiick ; 

 calm tluring tlie middle of the day; in the afternoon wind southwest; a 

 pleasant thiy. A large flight of Scoters took place, the birds going towards 

 the east. 



April 26. — Wind north in the morning, same weather as the day before; 

 strong southwest wind in the afternoon. Nothing especial to note. 



April 27. — Wind northeast in the morning; worked around to east and 

 south, strong breeze in the afternoon. Nothing flying. 



April 28. — Wind remained south all day, quite strong breeze, sea rough, 

 cloudy. Nothing especial to note. 



April 2y. — Wind southwest in the morning; changed to northwest 

 about noon; light rain all day. ?'Jothing especial to note. 



April 30. — Wind northwest all day, very pleasant. Only a few birds 

 moving, nothing to note. 



May 4. — While passing from Nantucket Island to Wood's Holl, Mass., I 

 saw a good many -White-wing, and a few Surf, Scoters. — George II. 

 Mackay, Natifuckct, Mass. 



The Red Phalarope (^CrymopkUus fulicarius) at Nantucket Island, 

 Massachusetts. — While driving in the western portion of this island on 

 May I, 1892, my attention was attracted while crossing the beach at the south 

 head of Hammuck Pond to quite a number of small birds (about forty 

 estimated) which, when flying on the waves, resembled the Sanderling 

 {^Calidris arenari'a), and which were hovering just above the water and 

 alighting on it amid the breakers which were rolling in on the beach. I at 

 once recognized that that most graceful of the smaller water birds, the Red 

 Phalarope, or Whale Bird as it is sometimes called, was before me. Never 

 having taken them before, I filled my pocket with cartridges and, hastily 

 jumping from my wagon (leaving my horse, who is accustomed to such pro- 

 ceedings, to take care of himself on the crest of the beach), I ran to the edge 

 of the water and commenced firing; nor was my ardor dampened, although 

 my legs and feet were, after the waves had twice washed over my rubber 

 boots. There was a strong south by west wind blowing at the time, as it had 

 been for a day or so previous, which drifted my dead birds on the shore- 

 The weather for the past week, as it was that day, had been quite cool. The 



