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Oldham Pond, Pembroke 96 Monponsett Pond, Halifax 70 



Pleasant Lake, Harwdch 9 Furnace Pond, Pembroke 8 



Accord Pond, So. Hingham. . . . 120 Indian Head 2 



Bog near Accord 30 Wenham Lake 14 



Jacob's Pond, Norwell 25 Punkapoag Pond about 120 



Duxbury Bay 350 Chebacco Pond, Essex 46 



Silver Lake, Kingston 325 Clarke's Pond, Ipswich. . .about 40 



Great South Pond, Plymouth. . 125 Martha's Vineyard about 25 



Weymouth Pond 160 All others about 150 



Whitman Pond, Weymouth. . .85 Total 1900 

 Robbins Pond, E. Bridgwater. .100 



Map of Flight. — Various records for Essex County have showed 

 that the western edge of the flight crosses Cape Ann near Essex, 

 and that at Wenham we are just outside of it. For four years 

 during which late records were kept at Wenham, an average of only 

 143 geese a year were seen, about 12% as many as the Oldham 

 average. At Chebacco Lake, four miles east, many more are seen 

 and taken each year, — therefore, we are here in the neighborhood 

 of the western edge of the flight belt. Chebacco Pond records 

 for the past six years have been examined with this point in view. 



South of Boston, we find Punkapoag and Quincy Bay inside the 

 beh. Passing east, we cross the flight-belt, which is about 36 miles 

 broad and has its eastern edge roughly at Manomet Point, Plymouth, 

 or the eastern coast of Buzzards Bay. I cannot find that such great 

 flights as are witnessed at Duxbury Bay and Mattapoisett occur 

 much further east. The ponds southeast of Plymouth, such as 

 Long Pond, Halfway Pond, White Island Pond, and Billington's 

 sea were never famous as good ponds. 



As we go out on the Cape, we find the flight more and more 

 scattering and irregular. At Pleasant Lake, Harwich, as many as 

 •CO have been shot in the fall, and sometimes scarcely any at all, — 

 last year 9. The same conditions hold at Cliff Pond, Brewster, 

 Eastham Pond, and Gull Pond, Wellfleet. All these places occa- 

 sionally get geese, but there is no dependable flight. It is the same 

 Avith the Vineyard. I am told on good authority, from two different 

 sources, that the fall bag for that island will not average much over 

 25 birds. 



Direction of Flight. — It is interesting to try and get at the direc- 

 tion of this overland flight. So many times flocks going over 



