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me several nests of the Green Heron 

 where he had taken photographs of 

 the eggs during the past summer. 



Lying about on the salt marsh were 

 the decaying remains of many Black- 

 fish, some of them fifteen feet or more 

 in length, and the odor from them was 

 highly disagreeable at times when the 

 wind brought it toward us. Black 

 Ducks could be seen at almost any 

 time during the day, but they were 

 very shy. I think one flock which we 

 saw standing on a sand bar contained 

 fully two hundred of them. 



Black-breasted Plover and Winter 

 Yellow-legs continued to be common 

 and furnished good shooting whenever 

 any of us cared to try for them. 

 Oysters could be picked up on the 

 beach at low tide, and clams were 

 fairly plentiful in some places. 



Sunday morning I had the pleasure 

 of meeting Mr. Alfred Swan, who col- 

 lected the specimens of Eskimo Curlew 

 now in D. Green's collection. Mr. 

 Swan described in detail the circum- 

 stances under which he killed the bird 

 nearly thirty years ago, and he proved 

 to be a very interesting acquaintance, 

 as he had hunted shore birds in that 

 vicinity nearly every season for many 

 years. 



The Eskimo Curlew was taken not 

 a great distance from the present site 

 of the camp, and Mr. Swan told us 

 that this past summer (1916) he saw 

 four Long-billed Curlews there, al- 

 though they are now quite rare on 

 the Cape. Sunday afternoon we 

 started for home. Just before leav- 

 ing, Jones showed me a small swamp, 

 right beside the main road constantly 

 used by automobiles, where the Black- 

 crowned Night Herons breed every 

 year, and I could see some of the 



nests from the auto as we passed the 

 swamp. 



Our trip was without incident, and 

 thus ended a very pleasant outing. 

 HORACE O. GREEN, 



Wakefield, Mass. 



F. C. WILLARD. 



F. C. Willard, the well known nat- 

 uralist of Tombstone, Arizona, has re- 

 cently removed to Farmingdale, Long 

 Island, New York, and by such re- 

 moval the Southwest loses one of its 

 leading and best known oologists, and 

 a naturalist, than whom there are but 

 few, if any superiors, all of which 

 Long Island will gain. From arid 

 Arizona with its cactus and desert 

 fauna to the shores of Long Island 

 with its wealth of marine bird life, is 

 certainly some change. 



LONG ISLAND GAME. 

 Ducks are reported more plentiful 

 on Great South Bay this season than 

 usual and gunners report good bags. 

 Broadbills are more plentiful than 

 any others, although Black Ducks are 

 numerous. Quail are quite plentiful 

 and Pheasatns were started up in 

 places further westward on Long Is- 

 land than they usually come, where 

 the natives have not seen them in a 

 number of years. 



THE STARLING ON LONG ISLAND. 



Starlings are becoming very plenti- 

 ful about the city and can be seen 

 sitting on house tops and whistling in 

 the morning and evening. In the 

 suburbs they perch on the chimneys 

 or in trees in yards. They can't seem 

 to sit quiet long, but keep flying from 

 one place to another with a constant 

 whistling. 



M. J. HOFMAN. 



SCISSOR-TAIL FLYCATCHER. 



While during my stay in Corsicana, 

 Texas, from August the 10th to Octo- 



