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adult plumage, and proved on dissection to be a female, and 

 from the condition of the ovaries laying would have begun, I 

 think, in from four to five weeks. 



The next day two more adult female birds were secured by 

 members of the party, but though we tried afterward, and always 

 saw the birds, they had become so wary that our efforts were 

 futile. The ovaries of these two females were in about the same 

 condition as in the one already described. 



From information gathered from a man who has known 

 of this flock of birds for several years, I am led to believe that 

 they breed somewhere in this vicinity. He tells me that from 

 July to January Flamingoes are to be found on the outlying islands 

 and reefs of Barnes Sound and Biscayne Bay, but that in 

 January they begin to congregate at the point I have indicated, 

 where there are always at least a hunched of the birds the 

 year round. From these ficts and the approach to the breeding 

 season indicated by the females we obtained, it seems altogether 

 probable that this large flock of Flamingoes breeds at some point 

 not far from where I found it. 



My thanks are due to Capt. Cook and to Mr. VV. E. Treat of 

 my party for aid in securing and observing these remarkable 

 birds. 



CAPE COD BIRD NOTES. 



BV G. S. MILLER, JR. 



The following notes were made during the years iSSS and 

 1SS9 in the vicinity of Highland Light, North Truro, Mass. 



At this point Cape Cod is but little more than two miles wide. 

 On the ocean side banks of clay and sand rise to a height of 

 about one hundred and fifty feet above the water. From here the 

 land slopes gradually westward, the general level broken only by 

 an occasional valley or 'sink hole,' to the Bay where the sand 

 'clitls,' as the natives call them, although much less high and 

 commanding than those on the ocean side, are nevertheless quite 



