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It is unusual lo sec any but scattei ing birds before the tenth of 

 September : tlie years when they are not seen they uniloubtedlv 

 pass outside of the coast line, with favoiablc weather. In 

 order to convey some idea of the date when C. domiiiicus 

 annual !}• makes its appearance, I copy from tlie notes of a friend 

 the dates of its arrival on Cape Cod, from 1S58 to 1875, and on Nan- 

 tucket from tlie latter year until iSyo from data of my own, tlius 

 covering a pei iod of thirty-two years, there being no record for 1876. 



iS.sS First birds shot Aug. 31 ; last birds shot Oct. 19. 



1559. First birds shot Aug. 29; last birds shot Sept. 25. 



1560. September. Some shooting during the month. 



1561. First birds shot Sept. 5; last birds shot Oct. 12. 



1562. No birds. 



1863. No birds of any account until Sept. 5, when tlicio was an im- 

 mense flight. 



1864. Some birds in September. 



1865. No flight. 



1566. A few birds in September; no flight. 



1567. A flight Aug. 31 ; last birds shot Oct. 20. 

 1S6S. September. Only a few this year. 



1869. No flight this year, and only a few birds killed. 



1870. A fliglit Aug. 29; fair shooting until Oct. 6. 



1871. P'irst Plover shot Aug. 25; not a very good year. 



1872. First birds shot Aug. 29. Hard southeast rain stoim on night 

 of 29th ; small flight. 



1873. First birds shot Aug. 23. A good many birds on Aug. 29. 



1874. Scarcely any. 



1875. First shot Aug. 30. 



1877. First birds shot Aug. 27. Severe rain storm night of Aug. 26; 

 small flight of Plover and Eskimo Curlew. Last birds shot Oct. 5. 



1878. First birds shot Aug. 26; rain the night before; some Plover and 

 Eskimo Curlew landed. Last birds shot Oct. 22. 



1879. First birds shot Aug. 26; a number of Plover laiuicd tlic night 

 before. There were three or four small flights in September. Last Plover 

 shot September 29. 



1880. First Plover shot Aug. 26. Saw three on the 22d. Sept. 7. a 

 large flight of old birds; shot 108 on the 7th and Sth. Sept. 9 : raining 

 and blowing last night; a flight went over the town of Nantucket, but did 

 not stop. Last birds shot Sept. 28. 



1881. First birds shot Aug. 16. Small flight Aug. 19; 300 to 400 birds 

 landed; weather foggy; wind northeast; two heavy rain "scpialls in the 

 afternoon. Sept. 2 : a large flight of Plover and Eskimo Curlew lamicd 

 last night; wind northeast and weather thick. No young birds this year. 

 Last birds shot Sept. 10. 



