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The Migration of Numenius borealis in Massachusetts in 1892. — 

 Although there was at the right time considerable weather sufficiently 

 severe to deflect and land Golden Plover (^Charadrius dominicus) , either 

 it was insufficient to cause a like result on such powerful fliers as Eskimo 

 Curlews, or none were passing our coast at the time. I have consequently 

 but a meagre record to present. At Nantucket on the afternoon and 

 during the night of Aug. 26, it blew hard (at rate of 37 miles an hour) 

 with rain. On the next day two birds were shot, two were seen also on 

 Tuckernuck Island; these were the first birds of the season. None were 

 seen between this date and Sept. 1, when one rather lean bird was shot; 

 the wind was west to north, a fresh breeze, late in the afternoon it backed 

 to northeast. My next record was on Sept. 6 when five birds were shot on 

 Tuckernuck Island, and three seen and one shot on Nantucket. No more 

 were noted until Sept. 15, on which date three were seen and one killed on 

 Nantucket. On the afternoon of the 14th the wind was strong, southeast, 

 increasing to rate of 35 miles an hour at midnight, with hard rain. Towards 

 morning of the 15th the wind changed to northwest, a light breeze. These 

 instances cover all the birds noted during the entire season on the above 

 islands. Mr. William Everett of Dorchester, Mass., who visits Prince 

 Edward Island regularly every year, informs me that seven Eskimo Curlew 

 were shot at Alberton, and one at Darnley, on or about Aug. 28, which 

 were all that he heard of during the entire season. — George H. Mackay, 

 Nantucket, Mass. 



Charadrius squatarola. — Mr. William Everett of Dorchester, Mass.. has 

 furnished me with the following information. At Malpeque, Prince 

 Edward Island, August 22, 1892, during mild, pleasant weather, a very 

 large flight of Black-bellied Plover appeared, the number that landed being 

 estimated at about one thousand. It was composed entirely of adults with 

 black, and black-and-white, breasts. Thev established themselves in sev- 

 eral fields at Lower Malpeque where they are locally known as 'Sea Plover.' 

 On the night of Sept. 14, 1892, it rained and was misty with southwest 

 wind. On the next day the greatest number of young birds that was ever 

 noted in this vicinitv at one time was seen in and flying about the fields of 

 Lower Malpeque. While driving around late in the afternoon as many as 

 one thousand birds (estimated) were seen in four fields. Many "others 

 were noticed flying, which did not stop. All the adults mentioned above 

 and which also had frequented the same fields where the young birds 

 were now, had previously departed. — George H. Mackay, Nantucket, 

 Mass. 



The Migration of Charadrius dominicus in Massachusetts in 1892. — 

 At Nantucket, Aug. 18, a flock of fifteen Golden Plover was seen, the first 

 noted this season. Aug. 20, 1 saw five scattered birds. I think there must 

 have been a storm at sea recently, 4 .for the surf was running high and 

 breaking over the beaches into the ponds near the shore on the south side 

 of the island, notwithstanding the fresh north wind. Large numbers of 



