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spring. July 27 was the date of its arrival in 1900 as recorded by 

 Mr. Bacon, and it was present and common on August 22 when our 

 fall observations began. There was no noticeable decrease in its 

 numbers until October, and, indeed, it continued a frequent and fairly 

 regular visitor up to October 27. In addition a single bird, to all ap- 

 pearances well and unhurt, was taken as late as November 16. It was 

 met with exclusively on the outside beach, and there were not a few 

 days when it was the only shore-bird seen there. Single birds, or two 

 or three together, were often found, but as a rule it was observed in 

 flocks of a dozen or thereabouts, keeping close to the edge of the 

 water, running down and back again with the recession and advance 

 of the waves, ceaseless in activity and graceful in every movement. 

 The flocks of old birds met with earlier in the season were sometimes 

 difficult to approach, but the young, which alone were found after the 

 first of September, were usually quite unsuspicious, and would often 

 come within a few yards if the observer remained perfectly still. A 

 flock of about two dozen birds was seen on the mud-flats at the Soldiers' 

 Home grounds during a brief visit made there by the writer on August 

 22, 1903, this being the only time the bird was ever noted away from 

 a sandy beach. Mr. Bacon notes that it usually appears sometime dur- 

 ing the first half of August, and says that he has seen it as late as October 

 27 (1893). Mr. Sennett has a specimen taken November 1, 1874, 

 and Mr. Simpson shot one November 17, 1902. "On September 16, 

 1900, I observed several feeding on a dead fish, and seemingly fight- 

 ing over it." (Bacon.) 



\_Limosafedoa. Marbled Godwit. 



" Mr. George B. Sennett informs me stragglers are occasionally taken in Crawford 

 and Erie counties. ' ' ( Warren, Birds of Pennsylvania, 1 890, 88. ) The exact locality 

 to which this note pertains cannot now be ascertained, although the statement may 

 well refer to the vicinity of Erie. In this connection also it may be noted that Mr. 

 Sennett even gives this species as breeding in Western Pennsylvania ( Elliot, North 

 American Shore Birds, 1895, 1 05). 

 Limosa hamastica. Hudsonian Godwit. 



This species may occur as a casual or accidental visitant. It has been noted on 

 Lake Erie near Cleveland (Wheaton, Birds of Ohio, 1882, 481).] 



71. Totanus melanoleucus. Greater Yellow-legs. 



A regular transient, occurring in moderate numbers both in spring 

 and in fall, although never so plentiful as the Lesser Yellow-legs, in 

 the company of which it is occasionally found. More than a half 

 dozen in any one flock have not been observed, single birds and pairs 



