24 Fragments of Natural History. 
for two or three weeks. Its fav fn is the tops of the 
— beach nage at the time the see ae 
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The willet, ( otanus semi nities, : Hisabie says, ‘are 
very seldom met with far inland,” and “ itt ttle 
those seen by Mr. Say on the banks of th Mis 
dentally visited that country.” . 
This bird is a common visitor to the shores of Lake Erie, both 
in the spring afid autumn. On the 3d of July, 1838, I shot an 
old specimen from a flock of more than twenty individuals that 
were in the habit of visiting the marsh in Ohio City, at the mouth 
of the Cuyahoga, for a number of days in succession. 
The young birds appeared here on the first of July of the pre- 
sent year, and considerable numbers have been shot by the sports- 
men. 
A few years since, they remained here during the whole of the 
summer, and probably reared their young in the neighborhood. 
They arg very abundant about some of the upper lakes. 
The marbled goodwit, (Limosa fedoa,\ occasionally visits the 
shores of Lake Erie and the Ohio river. The Hon. Mr. Granger 
has furnished me with a beautiful pair, killed near his residence 
at Fairport.. Several young specimens were shot in this vicinity 
about the first of August of the present season. They were 
associating with a flock of long-billed curlews, (Numenius lon- 
girostris. ) 
The Hudson curlew, (Nwmenius Hudsonicus, ) has been taken 
in a few instances in Ohio. [I have a specimen in my cabinet 
that alighted in the garden of Mr. A. Hayden, of this city, and 
was shot by him three years since. Another was taken in the 
vicinity of Cincinnati. - 
The piping plover, (Charadrius melodus,) I have seen in two 
instances on the shore of Lake Erie, and have specimens in my 
cabinet both in their winter and summer plumage. 
Mr. Audubon informs his readers that “they never proceed to 
y distance inland even along the sandy aoe of our mere 
Trivers.” 
Cleveland, Ohio, June 4, 1840. 
