RECORDS VOLUME XI, FEli., 1919. 23 



October 14. Fresh s. w. wind becoming a n. w. gale 

 by nignt. i was too busy with other things tor any 

 walk but noted a scarcity of all birds. 



October 15. The n. w. gale continued all day. A new 

 flight started, notable for numbers ot robins and other 

 thrushes, includmg numbers of purple finches and 

 juncos. October 1/. The present flight is maintained 

 in numbers. There has been gentle n. e. wind becoming 

 s. e. today with dull skies, i found about tour hours 

 available for bird observations, mostly in the forenoon. 



October 18. A stiff n. e. gale began in the night of 

 October 17-18 and continued through today, diminish- 

 ing and clearing with n. wind near sunset, i was busy 

 all day with camera; but noted white-wing scoters, 

 cormorants and myrtle and yellow palm warbiers aiOng 

 on the shore, 



October l9. Clear day with shifting gentle w. winds. 

 I was out about four hours. This day ranks as a very 

 high point in a migration wave of the first order. 

 There are as many sparrows here as I reported on the 

 18th, song sparrows being most in evidence. As a spar- 

 row wave its great numbers of birds are due more to 

 this species as contrasted with the other, though manv 

 species were represented by large numbers. 



I shall record the other as a sparrow wave, this as a 

 song sparrow and thrush wave. If I were to try to 

 name three species represented by the largest numbers 

 of individuals I would unhesitatingly say song spar- 

 rows, juncos, hermit thrushes; and if you will let me 

 group the thrushes together and include the robins in 

 the group, I shall put them at the head instead of third. 



An amusing note: I spent five minutes trying to 

 identify a yellow palm warbler who did not wag his 

 tail. At last I found he had no tail feathers. I men- 

 tioned this to the first person I saw for its humor, 

 Mrs. Walter Davis, who said, 'T know. I just took one 

 away from our cat." 



October 20. Last night, the full moonlight, was 

 clear and though I was too busy today to do much with 

 the birds I kept my eyes open for an hour while mov- 



