2 2 Mackay on the Golden Plover. fj;iiiu:iry 



iSS2. First birds shot Aug. 22. Lust birds shot Oct. 3. A great many 

 C. dominicu^ passed over without landing during the week prior to Aug. 

 ■50. Sept. z^ : last night a considerable flight of young birds; wind north- 

 east, iiglit rain; afterwards storming hard. Sept. 30: quite a flight of 

 voung birds huuied in northeast rain storm ; shot 50. Oct. 2 : about 

 400 voung birds landed on east end of Nantucket. 



1883. Aug. 2!; : last night and to-day a large number of C. doinhiicits 

 and Eskimo Curlew landed, in about equal numbers ; a severe northeast 

 storm. First flock of C. dominicus arrived Aug. 16. 



1884. First birds shot Aug. 26. On July 28 John M. Winslow shot a 

 lone C. dominicus whi'ch was emaciated, the earliest record of one being 

 taken on Nantucket Island. Aug. 31, large flight went by in clear 

 weather in the afternoon; wind light, southeast. The poorest year I have 

 ever known. 



iSSs- Aug. 23, first birds shot. Heard of two killed on Aug. 17. Last 

 birds shot Sept. 23. Had only killed half a dozen young birds up to 

 Sept. I. 



1886. First birds shot Aug. 22. August 24, a severe northeast storm 

 with rain and lightning. The largest flight for a number of years; some 

 two thousand birds landed. Only two young birds shot up to Sept. 12. 

 Last birds shot (7 young birds) on Sept. 27. 



1887. Aug. 25: considerable number of old birds landed; northeast 

 rain storm last night; all gone the next day. First birds shot Aug. 28. 

 Did not see a young bird this year. 



1888. August 28: thunder shower last night; wind about south; a 

 flight passing over the town; only a few scattering birds landed, as 

 weather cleared at 1030 r. m., with wind west by north; first Plover 

 shot. Sept. 2: a small flight, but few landed; wind westerly, foggy; 

 light rain at times until 7 A. M when it cleared; for the past week large 

 numbers of C. dominicus have been passing the Island every nigiit; 

 scarcely any landed. Last birds shot Sept. 24. No young birds this 

 year. 



1889. First birds shot Aug. 20. (^lite a flight Aug. 23, but none 

 landed. Sept. 11, small flight of C. dominicus; both old and young 

 birds, and also some Eskimo Curlew. The poorest year I have ever 

 known. 



1890.* First birds shot Aug. 25. August 22 and 26 a flight; none 

 stopped on either date; on the 26th the wind was south, raining Only 

 about fifty birds altogether shot on the Island. This makes the poorest 

 yearly record up to date. Last birds shot Se.pt. 29. About half of above 

 birds killed were young. 



It will be noticed from the foregoing that the older birds of 

 this species seem to come along with much more regularity than 



* I have since learned that there was a flight of Golden Plover along Cape Cod 

 Aug. 23, 1890. About 2500 birds (estimated) were seen, flying rather low; only a 

 few scattering birds stopped, although the weather was thick, rainy , wind southeast ; 

 they were headed south. None were noted on Nantucket on this date. 



