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TWO ATLANTIC COAST ISLANDS 



Terns Nesting on Drift- weed 



in England, old and barren lien Pheasants are known to mo- 

 lest sitting birds, — the practice, on Gardiner's Island, of 

 shooting no females may have rendered incubating birds 

 subject to disturbance by their elders of the same sex. How- 

 ever this may be, the fact remains that, without any evident 

 canse for the decrease, there are not more than half as 

 many Pheasants on the island in 1908 as there were in 1900, 

 and it is now proposed to put out one thousand more birds. 

 The woods and wood borders, in addition to the Vireos, 

 Scarlet Tanagers, Ovenbirds, Chats, Wood Thrushes and 

 other common species, hold as tenants, numerous Carolina 

 Wrens, a southern species whose loud, ringing, musical 



