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grackles. A dozen sparrows on the 

 lantern. A large number are flying 

 around the rays of the light but do not 

 seem to strike the lantern and kill 

 themselves as they usually do. The 

 ground is a resting place for many, 

 and as I pass along with my lantern, 

 they ny up in all directions." 



May 6. — "Wind northeast and very 

 dark. At 2 A. M., about fifty birds on 

 the lantern. Black-throated green, 

 myrtle, yellow palm warblers, Am. red- 

 start, white-throated and song spar- 

 rows. They do not appear to be kill- 

 ing themselves as they usually do." 



May 9.— "At 1.30 A. M., birds com- 

 menced to go on the lantern. The air 

 seems to be full of them,and the ground 

 is also covered with them. They seem 

 to be mostly white-throated sparrows. 



About seventy-five birds are on the 

 lantern. One black-throated green 

 three myrtle, three Md. yellowthroat, 

 three black and white and one parula 

 warbler. The rest are mostly white- 

 throated sparrows. A very few killed 

 themselves." 



May 13. — "Saw scarlet tanager." 



May 25. — I A. M. — "Wind east ana 

 very dark. Twenty-eight birds on the 

 lantern, among them hermit thrush, 

 magnolia, black-capped and black-th. 

 green warblers. Heard a bobolink 

 singing this morn." 



May 26. — "Wind east and rainy, 12. 

 30, A. M. Blackcap and black-th. green 

 warblers on lantern." 



May 28. — "Blue jay and bobolinK. 

 Twenty-five birds on lantern. Very 

 foggy." 



June 3. — "Wind southwest and rainy. 

 At 9 P. M., birds were seen flying 

 around the light, while fifteen are on 

 the lantern. Hermit thrushes, oven 

 birds and water thrushes seem to pre- 

 vail. A number of yellow throats and 

 yellow-palms were seen, and one 

 phoebe." 



June 5. — "Wind northeast and rainy, 

 12 midnight. A large number of birds 



are around the light, and about thirty 

 five are on the lantern. These are 

 mostly pine warblers, with a number 

 of magnolia and blackburnian warblers 

 in immature plumage. A number of 

 yellow-throats v/ere noticed, also 

 herm.'t thrush and blackcap, and 

 redstart warblers and least fly 

 catchers. A night hawk was seen 

 around the light but did not light on 

 the lantern. A semi-palmated sand- 

 piper flew against the light and was 

 killed." 



June 7 — 12.30 A. M— "Wind north- 

 east and foggy. A great many birds 

 are flying around the light, and about 

 sixty on the lantern. The greater 

 number of one species seems to be 

 yellowthroats. There are also ten 

 mourning warblers, ~pine ; magnolia 

 and black-cap warblers. Also oven- 

 birds, water thrushes and hermit- 

 thrushes. At 2 A. M., the fog cleared, 

 when most of the birds settled down 

 on the ground. Ten were killed and 

 a number wounded from flying against 

 the glass of the lantern. Later in the 

 day, found enough dead birds to swell 

 the mortality to twenty. Saw a red- 

 headed woodpecker." 



July .1 — "Saw leach petrel around 

 the light." 



Juyl 8. — "Leach petrel around the 

 light." 



July 11. — "Indigo bunting. This 

 bird is very rare in this vicinity." 



Aug. 5.— "12.20, A. M. Wind north- 

 east. Very dark and rainy. One cliff- 

 swallow, two water thrushes and a 

 least fly catcher on lantern." 



Sept. 2. — "At night, terns were flying 

 over the island, high in air." 



Sept. 5. — "Saw red-headed wood- 

 pecker." 



Sept. 17. — "Although there have been 

 many birds on the island, only one 

 yelowthroat came on the lantern. The 

 wind is southeast, rainy and moderate. 

 During the day, I shot a mocking-bird 



