1^/1 DuTCHER, Bird Notes from Lo?ig Island, N. T, [April 



BIRD NOTES FROM LONG ISLAND, N. Y. 



BY WILLIAM DUTCHER. 



For the purpose of determining the date of migration, the species 

 migrating, and the numbers that are destroyed by striking a light- 

 house during a spring and fall migration, I have for the past two 

 years received all the birds killed by flying against Fire Island 

 Light. This light is of the fii^st order, flashing white every 

 minute ; is i68 feet above the level of the sea, and is visible 

 ip^l" nautical miles. It is located on the east side of Fire Island 

 Inlet, south side of Long Island, N. Y., north latitude 40° 37' 

 57", west longitude 73° 13' 9".* 



I also received from Great West (or Shinnecock) Bay Light 

 part of those that were killed the night of September 30, 1883. 

 This light is also of the first order, but is a fixed white light ; is 

 160 feet above the sea level, and is visible i8f nautical miles. It 

 is located 45 miles east of Fire Island Light, on the main land, 

 about one mile north of the beach. Fire Island Light is built on 

 the beach, which is separated from the main land by Great South 

 Bay, which is here some six miles wide. I am not aware that 

 a fully identified list of the birds striking any lighthouse has ever 

 been published ; the only w^ork of this nature for the LTnited 

 States being the reports of a few light keepers (the birds not 

 being identified), collated smd published b}' Mr. J. A. Allen, f 

 and the reports by Messrs. John A. Harvie Brown, John Cor- 

 deaux, and others for the British Islands. J 



The records herewith submitted cover so short a period that 

 nothing can be deduced from them at the present time. I am 



* List of Lighthouses, Lighted Beacons, and Floating Lights of the Atlantic, Gulf, 

 and Pacific Coasts of the United States. Washington : Government Printing Office, 

 1883. 



t Destruction of Birds by Lighthouses. By J. A. Allen. Bulletin of the Nuttall 

 Ornithological Club, Vol. V, p. 131, 1880. 



X Report on the Migration of Birds in the Autumn of 1879. By John A. Harvie 

 Brown and John Cordeaux. The Zoologist, Vol. IV, May, 1880. 



Report on the Migration of Birds in the Spring and Autumn of 1880. By John A, 

 Harvie Brown, F.L.S., F.Z.S., John Cordeaux, and Philip Kermode. London, 

 1881. 



Report on the Migration of Birds in the Spring and Autumn ofi88i. By John A. 

 Harvie Brown, Mr. John Cordeaux, Mr. Philip M. C. Kermode, Mr. R. M. Barrington 

 and A. G. More. London, 1882. 



