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breeze; 47° at start, 54° at return. We satisfactorily iden- 

 tified 104 species of birds, which we consider a grood hst for 

 an absolutely inland region, without water, save for ponds 

 and small streams. 



In 1915 we started five minutes later and follow^ed the same 

 route, except that we were forced to take shelter so much 

 from the rain that we did not reach the Dead River till nearly 

 dark, and so did not go up to the marsh, but returned by road 

 to North Plainfield in time for the 9 p. m. car. Weather 

 cloudy except for first two or three hours ; frequent showers 

 in a. m. ; moderate S. E. wind; 45° at start, 51° at return. 

 Only 89 fully identified species, due partly to the weather and 

 partly to the fact that it was not nearly so much the height of 

 a big wave as it was the previous year. 



While not always strictly together, we were always within 

 hail and each of us noted every species recorded except that 

 W. DeW. M, alone heard the Whip-poor-will in 1914 and 

 the Black-Billed Cuckoo in 1915. The numbers of individ- 

 uals recorded are the result of actual count (as far as possi- 

 ble) and were entered with exceeding frequency during the 

 progress of the hunts. As we both did not hear or see every- 

 thing, when we differ the larg"er number is here given, and 

 we believe these numbers to be conservative. 

 , Strangely enough, exactly the same twenty-four species of 

 Mniotiltidcv were seen each year, but their number of indi- 

 viduals was 334 in 1914 and 186 in 1915, this difference be- 

 ing nearly the difference in the total number of individuals 

 noted, 1112 in 1914, 929 in 1915. The larger numbers of 

 Thrushes and particularly of White-throated Sparrows and 

 Myrtle Warblers in 1915 is noteworthy. 



That it is not well on a big day to quit work with the ar- 

 rival of darkness is shown by the circumstance that in 1914 

 we added five species to our list after it had grown too dark 

 to see them ; these were "Virginia Rail, \A^oodcock, Greater 

 Yellowlegs, Screech Owl and Whip-poor-will. The Wood- 

 cock did not even say anything, but we all heard clearly the 

 characteristic twittering of the wings of one w4iich flew 



