The Oologist. 



Vol. XXIV. No. 9. 



Albion, N. Y. Sep., 1907. 



Whole No. 242 



THE OOLOGIST, 



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A Decoration Day Trip. 



At daylight on the morning of May 

 30th T embarked in an old flat boat 

 for a trip down the river to my old 

 collecting and ducking grounds. The 

 boat was a leaky old thing but there 

 was a fairly good stage of water and 



I concluded that riding would beat 

 walking. 



There was a very heavy fog which 

 did not lift for some time. The trip 

 was only fairly begun when on a grav- 

 el bar that loomed up ahead sudden- 

 ly out of the fog I saw a peculiar 

 looking wader. I failed to recognize 

 it, so lost no time but cut loose at 

 once and landing I found I had a fine 

 adult Turnstone. My first, and no 

 doubt, last record. At Erie 65 miles 

 from us many shore birds are taken 

 and I have many good things in my 

 collection that I got there on the 

 "Peninsula" but I never met the 

 Turnstone although I have one that 

 was taken there in Sept., 1904. There 

 are but few fall records and only 1 

 spring record. So this one specimen 

 well repaid me for the trip. Farther 

 down I saw a belated fm. Lesser 

 Scaup. By the time I arrived at my 

 destination the fog was lifting and 

 the sun shining brightly. I first ex- 

 plored an island. On a sand bar at 

 the foot were about 50 soft shelled 

 turtles of all sizes. When I got i:i 

 sight there was a grand rush for the 

 water. The Rough-winged swallows 

 were nesting. An Osprey was plung- 

 ing fcr fish, but didn't seem to have 

 any success. A Bittern arose and left 

 in a hurry. There seemed to be noth- 

 ing that I wanted so I landed on the 

 mainland. There is a big flat at this 

 point through which a deep sluggish 

 boyou flows; the timber is elm and 

 sycamore mostly and the undergrowth 

 is large thcrn-bushes. The ground is 

 carpeted with a dense growth cf 

 ferns, nettles, skunk cabbage, etc. I 



