10 ORNITHOLOGIST | 
[ Vol. 11-No. 1 




several Greater Yellow-legs seen ; no Arctic Terns 
seen for several days. Aug. 17, saw several flocks 
of Black-bellied Plover. Aug. 18, wind S$. W.; a 
flock of Golden Plover arrived to-day, but did 
not make any stop. Aug. 27, wind N. W., and 
blew very fresh; found a small bunch of seven 
Pectoral Sandpipers in a meadow; no Least Tern 
seen; saw one bunch of young Robin Snipe and 
Turnstone together ; Sanderlings more abundant ; 
two Marsh Hawks, one Nighthawk and several 
Summer Yellowbirds seen. Aug. 28, fair; col- 
lected a male Solitary Sandpiper, one Baltimore 
Oriole, one Summer Yellowbird and a female 
Redstart. These I secured among some old drift- 
wood on the beach. Saw one Kingbird and quite 
a number of Warblers, Sparrows and Swallows; 
Barn Swallows abundant; saw a flock of ten 
young Black Tern. Aug. 29, wind N. W. ; Sum- 
mer Yellowbirds quite common. Aug. 31, wind 
S. E., rain fell in the morning; Black Tern very 
abundant ; saw as many as several hundred dur- 
ing the day; saw one flock of twenty-three sitting 
on the flats, but did not observe an adult among 
them; one Golden Plover seen. 
September 1, wind. E., and foggy ; saw a large 
flock of about one hundred Black-bellied Plover. 
Sept. 2, wind N. W.; saw a young Robin Snipe ; 
several Great Northern Divers seen off in the bay. 
Sept. 3, wind 8.; Black Tern very abundant. 
Sept. 4, wind 8. W.; saw a small flock of Black 
Ducks; Semipalmated Plover and Sandpiper’s 
growing less abundant. Two adult Roseate Tern 
shot to-day; they had red bills same as the Com- 
mon Tern; one Tern secured had no tarsus, it be- 
ing gone from the first joint above the foot. 
stump had healed and left a little hard bunch on 
the end. Sept. 6, wind §.; new arrival seen was 
one Eskimo Curlew, which I flushed out of some 
moss on the sand hill. Sept. 7, wind §., cloudy; 
Roseate and Common Tern very abundant on the 
sand bars; one Jaeger seen. Sept. 8, wind N. E., 
cloudy ; Sanderlings less abundant, and nearly all 
remaining are young. Young Black-bellied 
Plover seen to-day for the first time; Richardson’s 
Jaegars common; jarge »umbers of White-bellied 
and Barn Swallows flying about; Sharp-tailed 
Finches abundant. Sept. 9, wind 8. W., rained 
all day ; saw large numbers of Black Tern feeding 
on the meadows that were overflowed; Sander- 
lings diminishing every day. Sept. 22, windS. E., 
rained part of the day; several large flocks of 
Black-bellied Plover arrived. Sept. 28, wind 
blowing fresh from the N. W.; the storm of last 
night caused a “flight” of Shorebirds. I found 
on the flats, at low tides, Sanderlings, Red-backed 
Sandpipers (young) and Black-bellied Plover 
abundant. On the meadows, which the rain had 
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overflowed, I found Semipalmated, Least, Red- 
backed and Pectoral Sandpipers abundant. 
Greater Yellow-legs and Willets also seen on the 
meadows. Collected two Hudsonian Curlew and 
one Bonaparte’s Sandpiper out of a flock of Semi- 
palmated Sandpipers. After flushing the Pectoral 
Sandpipers, noticed some would only fly a short 
distance and drop down in the grass, while others 
would jump up like the Wilson’s Snipe and fly in 
an irregular course until at quite an altitude, when 
they would circle for a short time overhead, then 
suddenly pitch downand alight in the same place 
they started from. When they fly a short dis- 
tance their cry is a single Jow ‘‘tweet,” but when 
they spring up quickly and fly a long distance 
their cry is louder and often repeated. Sept. 24, 
while in the meadows collecting Pectoral Sand- 
pipers, I had the good fortnne to secure an adult 
male Buff-breasted Sandpiper that was leaving 
the meadows high up in the air. Sept. 25, wind 
N, blew very fresh in the afternoon; shore birds 
not as abundant as the day previous; new arrival 
was a Hudsonian Godwit, which I shot on the 
flats. One small flock of Golden Plover seen. 
Richardson’s Jaegers more abundant; saw six at 
one time chasing Tern. Sept. 26, wind $.; only 
a few Sanderlings seen; Pectoral Sandpipers are 
diminishing in numbers. Found a Sora Rail dead 
on the beach, probably killed by flying against a 
stake. Sept. 28, wind N., cloudy with light rains 
all day ; found Hudsonian Curlew, Greater Yel- 
low-legs and young Red-breasted Sandpipers 
common; several small flocks of Black-bellied 
Plover seen. Loons and Sea Coot flying about. 
Sept. 29, wind N.; Richardson’s Jaegers com- 
mon; also saw two Long-tailed Jaegers ; collected 
six Jaegers in different plumage. When one is 
shot the others hang over it, so that many can be 
killed at one time. Saw as many as twenty-five 
sitting on the flats. Several that I shot had sand 
eels in their bills. Sept. 80, wind N.; only a few 
Pectoral Sandpipers seen on the meadows ; a large 
flock of Black Ducks noticed. Shot an American 
Bittern near a small pond hole, 
October 1, wind N. ; Jaegers abundant ; several 
flocks of Sanderling seen, also a few Black-bellied 
Plover. Oct. 2, wind N. E., foggy; found one 
Bonaparte's Sandpiper on the flats in company 
with Red-backed, do. Sanderlings scarce; Terns 
leaving. A small flight of Greater Yellow-legs 
arrived last night. Oct. 8, wind W.: a few Sand- 
erlings and Red-backed Sandpipers remain. 
Greater Yellow-legs quite abundant; a small 
flock of the Black-bellied Plover seen. Saw 
several Green-winged Teal and Shovellers in a 
small pond on the meadows. Saw a Turnstone 
on the beach. Large Gulls abundant. 
