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the 4th a Nashville Warbler was seen well out on Cape Cod, 

 and on the 6th a Bay-breasted Warbler. In the stormy weather 

 beginning July 10 a great migration of shore birds of many 

 species landed at various points on the New England coast. 

 On the 10th and 11th warblers were reported moving down 

 the Maine coast. Several species of northern warblers were 

 seen on the 13th in Brooklyn, New York. Bobolinks and Tree 

 Swallows began moving after the first week in the month. 

 Red-breasted Nuthatches appeared in localities in Maine, from 

 which they had been absent in the breeding season. There 

 was other evidence of movement among land birds. On July 

 26 at Mingan on the St. Lawrence River, in the Province of 

 Quebec, Tree Swallows were observed bound west along the 

 coast. Crossbills were moving in the same direction. A few 

 days later reports from Maine indicated an accession of Cross- 

 bills of both species there. Immediately afterward both species 

 appeared in New Hampshire and Vermont. 



The rains caused a terrible destruction of Chimney Swifts 

 in Maine. In one locality it w^as reported that two wheel- 

 barrow loads of these birds were found dead at the bottom 

 of a great unused chimney. (A similar occurrence happened 

 in 1904 in Massachusetts, but from that time until 1922 nothing 

 like it has been reported.) Considerable mortality among 

 young terns occurred at this time in Massachusetts. Mean- 

 while in northern Vermont dry weather prevailed. 



August, 1922. 

 August was not an excessively hot month in southern New 

 England, but as with the other summer months there was an 

 excessive rainfall. Fog and rain prevailed along the coastal 

 region of southern New England for nearly all the first part 

 of the month, and interfered with the observation of bird 

 migration. Winds from the South and Southwest prevailed.. 

 The greatest rainfall of the month came on the 27th, with high 

 winds, thunderstorms and floods which did great damage to 

 roadbeds and bridges. During the prevailing southwest winds 

 and fine weather of the previous week many shore birds passing 

 south were keeping well out to sea, but with the long storm 

 which began on the 26th the wind changed to southeast and a. 

 great flight swung in over the coast. 



