1889. ] CHADBOURNE 02 a Flight of Killdeer Plover. 259 
were very tame, would settle back immediately after being dis- 
turbed. Their cry was very annoying, piercing, and exasperating, 
especially as they kept it up all night. My brother said they 
would allow you to come within twenty feet of them without 
moving. No one had ever seen them before.” I was told that 
at Chatham about Nov. 26 the birds swarmed everywhere, but 
after the first day or two grew shy and were found inland about 
ponds and spring-holes. After the storm the birds gradually 
disappeared, except a few that remained at favorable points 
for along time; at Chatham some were seen as late as Dec. 
22, and at the Isles of Shoals they had not all gone on Jan. 
31, 1889. On the eastern end of Long Island the birds apparent- 
ly occurred in large numbers, though I have no very satisfactory 
data from that region. I have not heard of any from farther up 
Long Island Sound, or on the Connecticut coast, except at Black 
Rock, which is near Bridgeport. Dr. William C. Rives says that 
about Newport Mr. Charles H. Lawton reports: ‘*The day of 
the big storm, Nov. 24, they [the Killdeer Plover] made their 
appearance, and have been feeding in this locality ever since. I 
have been noting a large flock that has been feeding in the wet 
land at the head of Almy’s Pond. .... They were there 
last night (Dec. 24). I have only heard [of them] within a few 
miles along the coast, so can’t say how far the flight extends. 
They have been very abundant, never heard of such a flight before. 
I have also heard of some Golden Plover the first day 
or two of the flight.””. From Cape Cod as far north as Newbury- 
port, and probably to Portland, Maine, the birds were common 
but not in anything like the numbers found along Cape Cod and 
on Nantucket. At Portland and Biddeford, Maine, they were 
apparently about as plenty as near Boston. Mr. Geo. A. Board- 
man of Calais, Maine, writes ‘‘there has been quite a flight of 
Killdeer Plovers, the first I heard of was shot from a flock on 
Dec. 1, and the last Dec. 15. Most were sent me from Grand 
Manan. Itis now [Dec. 29] two weeks since I have heard of 
any being shot.” From Nova Scotia and New Brunswick I have 
only the light-house reports, but these seem to show that the 
eastern and southern parts of Nova Scotia were the most visited. 
South of Long Island no birds are reported until well into Decem- 
ber, and by that time many would have worked their way south. 
The flight seems to have been limited to within a mile or two 
