18 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



The list and approximate number of the water birds seen on 

 this trip were: 



Herring Gull, 30 Least Sandpiper, 5 



Laughing Gull, 200 Semipalmated Sandpiper, 200 



Common Tern, 60 Yellow-legs, 2 



Least Tern, 2 Willet, 5 



Black Tern, 100 Spotted Sandpiper, 10 



Black Skimmer, 200 and 50 to Hudsonian Curlew, 100 



100 young Sanderling, 10 



Black Duck, 10 Dowitcher, 2 



Great Blue Heron, 40 Knot, 100 



Little Blue Heron, 1 Black-bellied Plover, 10 



Green Heron, 30 Killdeer, 1 



Night Heron, 1 Semipalmated Plover, 300 



Clapper Rail, 2 Piping Plover, 4 



Pectoral Sandpiper, 5 Turnstone, 10 



Some time ago I gave an account of Camden's shore-bird 

 meadow. At that time the area covered by water was a square 

 mile in extent, but this is far from the case today, as it has dwin- 

 dled to one small pond of perhaps half an acre. I was not 

 aware of the existence of this until I happened on it August 24. 

 I had been wandering about regretting the changes that improve- 

 ments had accomplished when I came upon it; a little pool with 

 a wide muddy rim circled about by water loving plants, hemmed 

 in on all sides by the steep embankments of the filled in area. 

 Just why it had not suffered the fate of the marsh all about was 

 a puzzling question, but there it lay and furthermore the muddy 

 rim was fairly teeming with shore-birds. It was evident they had 

 located this spot with its abundant food supply without difficulty. 



I swept my glasses over a flock of small Sandpipers and back 

 again. "What's that?" A small buffy Sandpiper came into the 

 field. It was somewhat larger than the Semi-palmated Sandpipers 

 close by. It was somewhat smaller than the Pectoral Sandpipers 

 just as near. I was certain the bird before me was either a White- 

 rumped or Baird's Sandpiper but was unable to decide that evening 

 as the bird gave no plain view of its rump. August 26 found me 

 at the pond in the morning but the bird was not there, I returned 

 again about noon and found it quietly feeding in almost the 



