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there, that no estimation of numbers 

 could be made. There must be thous- 

 ands, tor the ground is covered with 

 them beside the hosts in the air. Many 

 are fluttering against the sides of the 

 buildings, which are painted white, 

 and the whole throng seem to have 

 got completely bewildered. The flight 

 consists of juncos, song ,white-throat- 

 ed and savanna sparrows, two lin- 

 coln's sparrows, a few yellow-throats 

 and pine warblers. Saw one robin on 

 the lantern." 



Oct. 27 — "Caught two white-winged 

 crossbills, the only birds that came on 

 the lantern." 



Nov. 12. — "I A. M., rain and snow 

 squalls. Saw a number of birds in the 

 rays of the light, but couldn't identify 

 the species. Saw a hermit thrush 

 feeding around the ledges." 



Nov. 14 — "Saw three hermit thrushes. 

 Ihey look cold and disconsolate." 



Nov. 28 — "Saw a fox sparrow." 



Feb. 3, 1900 — "Saw two winter chip- 

 ping sparrows." 



May 3 — "3 A. M., quite a number of 

 birds around the lantern. Two rusty 

 grackles are on the lantern. These 

 grackles are the first I remember of 

 seeing on the lantern. The birds 

 stayed on the lantern until daybreak." 



May 9 — "Many birds around the lan- 

 tern. The island is covered with birds. 

 The most white crowned sparrows I 

 ever saw at one time." 



May 28. — "Picked up a lincoln's 

 sparrow, killed by flying against the 

 light." 



Aug. 28 — "4 A. M., a number of 

 birds on the lantern. Among them a 

 mourning warbler." 



Oct. 5— "At 8 P. M., the wind was 

 blowing very hard.. The fog again 

 clearing. Many birds gyrating about 

 the light. The mortality will be very 

 large. I picked up two hundred and 

 seventy-five dead birds and judge 

 there are enough wounded to swell the 



number to over three hundred. 

 Among the dead was a yellow-breasted 

 chat, the first one I ever saw." 



Oct. 6 — "A number of pine warblers 

 came on the lantern. About thirty 

 struck the glass. Not a dead bird 

 was found." 



Oct. 9 — "Rained hard all night. 

 Some two hundred or more birds are 

 resting on the railing that surrounds 

 the light. About one hundred have 

 been killed." 



April 30, 1901— "One each, hermit 

 thrush, ruby crowned kinglet, Savan- 

 na sparrow, magnolia and yellow 

 palm warbler on the lantern. 



May 15 — "First flight for the sea- 

 son about the light. Although more 

 than fifty birds were on the lantern, 

 only one water thrush was found 

 dead." 



May 28 — "At 2 A. M., about a dozen 

 warblers on the lantern, among them 

 a Canadian warbler." 



Sept. 18 — "3 A. M., wind northwest, 

 dark and cloudy. About fifteen birds 

 on the lantern. Among them one barn 

 swallow and a scarlet tanager." 



April 1, 1892 — "About fifteen spar- 

 rows on the lantern. No mortality." 



April 5 — "Several sparrows about 

 the light. A woodcock alighted on 

 the railing, but all my attempts to 

 capture it were unsuccessful." 



June i — "Black billed cuckoo flew 

 against the light and was killed." 



THE MOURNING DOVE'S SONG. 



Hattie Washburn. 

 Serenly o'er the landscape 



The shades of evening fall, 

 From the woodland's cool retreat 



Comes the dove's mournful call. 



Sadly the winds are sighing 

 The lonely forest through, 



Breaking the silence is heard 

 The mourning dove's soft coo. 



