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cloudy with showers. Birds have been 

 around the light for two or three hours. 

 About fifty on the lantern flying around 

 the light. At 2 A. M., the stars shone 

 out through the clouds and the birds 

 quickly disappeared. 



May 7— "Wind E. N. E., and foggy. 

 At 8 P. M., a flock of yellow-legs came 

 around the light. I imitated their call 

 and they circled around a long time 

 in the rays of the light." 



May 14 — "2 A. M. Rainy and dark, 

 many birds around the light. Twenty- 

 five or more on the lantern. No mor- 

 tality." 



Aug. 14.— "4 A. M. Two red-bellied 

 nuthatches on the lantern." 



Sept. 8, '99 — "Midnight, wind north- 

 westi very dark, not a star to be seen. 

 The air is so impregnated with smoke 

 as to make my throat smart in breath- 

 ing. At this hour, I came on duty, 

 the birds were flying around the light. 

 On going into the lantern, I found 

 about seventy-five birds on the out- 

 side. Pine warblers, black and white 

 and yellow-throats, oven birds, two 

 hermit thrushes and one yellow-bellied 

 fly-catcher. All seemed to alight on 

 the glass as fast as they appeared, 

 very few seen flying around the light. 

 At 3 A. M., came a light shower, which 

 seemed to check the flight. Those on 

 the lantern remained until morning. 

 All the mortality occurred with the 

 yellow-throats, ten of this species being 

 found dead. This seems odd, as I 

 could hear many birds strike the dome 

 of the lantern, the concussion when 

 they struck sounding like a body of 

 several pounds weight." 



Sept. 10— "3 A. M. Three red- 

 bellied nuthatches and one hermit 

 thrush came on the lantern." 



Sept. 12.— "2 A. M., wind E. S. E., 

 and rainy. Two pine warblers came 

 on the lantern. No birds seen around 

 the light, 'till after a heavy shower, 



when suddenly a number appeared, but 

 none struck the light." 



Sept. 13— "4.30 A. M., wind from 

 northwest to southeast fresh breeze 

 and foggy. About twenty birds on the 

 lantern, pine and black burnian warb- 

 lers. Others could be heard. Those 

 on the lantern remained 'till daybreak. 

 Did not find any dead birds." 



Oct. 1 — "Saw red-headed wood- 

 pecker." 



Oct. 2— "Wind very cold. At 7 P. 

 M. an ospr.ey struck the lantern, the 

 concussion causing it to drop to the 

 walk that surrounds the lantern. 

 There it sat in a dazed condition for a 

 few minutes and then flew off into the 

 darkness. Where the bird struck the 

 glass, it was smeared with blood, 

 showing that it must have been injur- 

 ed badly. Quite a number of birds on 

 the lantern at 10 P. M., hermit thrush 

 and a yellow-bellied sapsucker. At 1 

 A. M., the stars came out bright, when 

 most of the birds disappeared.'" 



Oct. 6— "2 A. M., wind northeast, 

 fresh breeze and cloudy, few birds fly- 

 ing around the light. On the lantern 

 are a few junco, sparrows, hermit 

 thrushes and two black-throated blue 

 warblers. About fifty birds were 

 killed. One winter wren, one berwicks 

 wren, one lincoln sparrow and a 

 woodcock." 



Oct. 10— "2 A. M., dark, no stars to 

 be seen. Large flight of birds on the 

 lantern, mostly pine warblers. Many 

 are striking the lantern and killing 

 themselves. The birds are also flying 

 against the windows of the dwelling 

 houses, attracted to them by the house 

 lamps. The air is full of birds and 

 fly from under my feet in all direc- 

 tions, as I walk about the island." 



Oct. 13 — "4 A. M., very dark and per- 

 fectly calm. There are about two 

 hundred birds on the lantern, while 

 hundreds are gyrating about in the 

 rays of the light. Such a confusion is 



