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Clinton about 4000 feet above sea level. As a rule I find that four 
eggs constitute a clutch but I have sometimes found three and 
sometimes five. ‘The young are fed often and grow so rapidly that 
they usually have left their nest in about two weeks after hatching. 
During August the Juncos retire to the deep woods and seem to 
keep in groups of three or four but in September they reappear 
around the hotel. I think these birds are those that have been in 
the woods, not migrants. ‘Toward the middle of the month the 
number greatly increases until about the fifteenth it is not unusual 
to see large flocks of Juncos, some feeding along the roadsides, 
others along the edge of the woods. After the twenty-fifth I have 
noticed a few of these birds but not as many as in the middle of the 
month. I usually leave for home about the twenty-eighth and so 
do not know about the Juncos at Crawfords after that time. 
Richard M. Marble. 
SHORE-BIRD SEASON AT HYANNIS. 
THE shore-bird migration at Hyannis, Massachusetts, begins 
usually the first week i August and lasts till November. I usually 
find the birds on a sand island near the house or on the large 
marshes two or three miles distant. Sometimes I have heard a 
Yellowlegs, flying over my house and have by continual whistling 
brought him down within fifty feet of the piazza. 
On August 6, 1906, I saw a Hudsonian Curlew on Succonessett 
Point about fifteen miles west of Hyannis and on August twenty- 
fourth of the same year I saw a flock of about seventy or eighty 
Sandpipers among which were the Solitary Sandpiper, Spotted 
Sandpiper, Sanderling, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper 
and a half-dozen Semipalmated Plover. In 1907 there was no 
great migration about Hyannis because the United States Squadron 
was stationed in Provincetown Harbor and was having target prac- 
tice during the months of August and September. ‘This, I think, 
frightened the shore-birds away, because, when I questioned some 
hunters, they said that where the shore-birds were common in 
1906, there were only a few seen in 1907. In 1908 there was no 
great flight, but I saw the following species: — Hudsonian Curlew, 
July 28; Semipalmated Plover, August 10; two Willets, August 19; 
