The Birds of a Marsh 131 



deserted by the birds, excepting a few Green Herons, a Kingfisher, Pec- 

 toral, Semi-palmated Plover and about a dozen Least and Semi-palmated 

 Sandpipers. 



September 13. In the bushes were Mar\dand Yellowthroats, which 

 gave an imitation of their spring song, some immature Blackpoll Warblers, 

 Purple Finches and a pair of Phoebes. 



September 19, a pair of Black Ducks flew over, and a pair of Mourning 

 Doves joined the shorebirds, Robins and Cowbirds on the mud. 



September 21, saw an Indigo Bunting in a bad state of molt in the 

 cattails. A Cooper's Hawk was soaring about, then alighted on a stump. 

 I was watching it with my glass, when suddenly a mink ran up the stump 

 and grabbed it. The Hawk started to fly and was pulled to the ground, 

 but before I could get to them it broke loose and flew away. 



White - throated Sparrows made their appearance in the bushes Sep- 

 tember 22. 



October 9 two lovely Pectorals stood at the edge of a small pool, and 

 in the bushes were Blackpolled (immature) and Myrtle Warblers, White- 

 throated, Song, Swamp and a few White-crowned Sparrows, a Hermit 

 Thrush, Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers, White -breasted Nuthatch, some 

 Chickadees and Rusty Crackles. At dusk flocks of Robins, Cowbirds and 

 Redwings gathered in the alders to roost. 



October 22, an American Pipit was feeding near a flock of Pectorals, 

 and I flushed a pair of Wilson's Snipe from the edge of the weeds. Saw 

 a Ruby-crowned Kinglet in the bushes. 



October 29, a Long-tailed Duck was swimming in the shallow water, 

 and an Osprey stood on the partly eaten body of a Horned Grebe, where 

 he was bothered by a flock of Crows. 



November 12 was a cold, windy day, and I saw only a few Song and 

 Tree Sparrows, a couple of Killdeers and a Pectoral. 



During the season I had observed 61 species about this marsh and in 

 the years 1896, '97 and '98, 30 species which were not seen this year 

 making a total of 91 species seen about this marsh. 



The 30 species not mentioned before were: Red-shouldered Hawk, 

 Pied - billed Grebe, American Herring Gull, Least and Black Terns, 

 American and Least Bitterns, Coot, Greater Yellowlegs, Red-backed Sand- 

 piper, Marsh Hawk, Bald Eagle, Nighthawk, Tree, Chipping, Vesper and 

 Arcadian Sparrows, Nashville, Yellow, Magnolia and Black and White 

 Warblers, American Golden Eye and Wood Duck, Ruby-throated Hum- 

 ming-bird, Slate-colored Junco, Sora, Wood Pewee, Least Flycatcher, 

 Meadow-lark and Golden -crested Kinglet. 



