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"4.15: a few Robins already in wood. 5.15: 3 Crow-blacks^ 

 flew over roost toward Haddon Heights, viz., westward. 5.30: 

 flock of 30 Robins flew into big gum. 5.50: 15 Crow-blacks 

 flew over and came back in three minutes. 5.55: growing dark 

 and apparently no Blackbirds likel}- to come, when suddenly a 

 flock of 150 drop in from the east, Robins meanwhile com- 

 ing in fives and tens, scatteringly from Haddonfield way, many 

 others descending from a great height from Audubon way; 

 Night Hawks dashing about high up; some Cedar Birds seen. 

 6.05: 50 Crow-blacks from the west; Wood Thrushes scolding, 

 also Chewinks, Brown Thrushes and Robins making quite a 

 commotion in woods, probably caused by Owls there, also noted 

 Cat Birds, and a Least Flycatcher, plainly seen, earlier. 6.15: 

 quite dark, but saw 25 to 30 Doves come in, in close file, just 

 over swamp bushes, evidently in much fear. As many Robins 

 as on my first visit. 6.30: went home." 



The great reduction in numbers of roosting birds observed on 

 my second visit was evidently not due to lack of birds in the 

 region or to migration, as my observations in neighboring locali- 

 ties proved, but was undoubtedly due almost entirely to gun- 

 ners, who, I was informed, had, on several evenings since ^my 

 first visit, been shooting the Blackbirds as they came in. 



Third visit, Sunday, September 28th. " Arrived at roost on 

 my wheel. 5.50 p. m., many Robins coming, in irregular flocks 

 from Haddonfield way, which, I do not doubt, are the same 

 flocks observed in the gum trees back of my house that afternoon, 

 where there seemed to be several hundred. No Blackbirds nor 

 Starlings appeared that night in any direction viewed from the 

 roost, though flocks of the former were in my woods and vicin- 

 ity that day at Haddonfield. Remained till late dusk, 6.20, 

 and heard a Wood Thrush and Chewink. About 30 Doves came 

 to their roost in the pines in twos and threes, over a period of 

 about twenty minutes. Fine clear day and evening, neither 

 cold nor hot. Should say there was no diminution in number 

 of Robins coming to roost from that noted on previous visit. " 



This was my last visit. These observations can be considered 

 merely as a preliminary report on a Roost which will bear fur- 

 ther and more careful investigation next year, and it is my hope 



