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several Greater Yellow-legs seen ; no Arctic Terns 

 seen for several days. Aug. 17, saw several fljScks 

 oABIack-bellied Plover. Aug. 18, wind S. >V". ; a 

 floek of Golden Plover arrived to-day, but did 

 notynake any stop. Aug. 37, wind N. "Vy ., and 

 l)le-vv^ very fresh ; found a small buncli (/'( seven 

 PeotC^ral Sandpipers in a meadow ; no hakst Tern 

 seen; \saw one buncli of young Robin ^nipe and 

 Turnsipne together; Sanderlings more /ibuudant ; 

 two Maish Hawks, one Niglilhiiwk and several 

 Summer Yellowbirds seen. Aug. 38, fair; col- 

 lected a male Solitary Sandpiper, one BaUimore 

 Oriole, oDc Summer YcHowbird find a female 

 Redstart. • These I secured among some old drift- 

 wood on the beach. Saw one Kiijgbird and quite 

 a number of Warblers, Sparrow^ and Swallows; 

 Barn Swallows abundant; saW a flock of ten 

 young Black;Tem. Aug. 39, Vmd N. W. ; Sum- 

 mer Yellowbirds quite commoii. Aug. 31, wind 

 S. E., rain fell in the morning; Black Tern very 

 abundant ; saw as many as afeveral hundred dur- 

 ing the day; saw one iloek o/ twenty-three sitting 

 on the flats, but did noi observe an adult among 

 them; one Golden PIovlv seen. 



September 1, wind S. E,, and foggy ; saw a large 

 flock of about one liuiidix^d Black-bellied Plover. 

 Sept. 3, wind N. W. ; saw a young Robin Snipe ; 

 several Great Northern Divers seen off in the bay. 

 Sept. 3, wind S. ; Black Tern very abundant. 

 Sept. 4, wind S. W. ; saw a small flock of Black 

 Dunks; Semipalmafed Plover and Sandpiper's 

 growing less abundant. Two adult Roseate Tern 

 shot to-day ; they liad red bills same as the Com- 

 mon Tern ; one T^rn secured had no tarsus, it be- 

 ing gone from \M first joint above the foot. Tlie 

 stump had healed and left a little hard bunch on 

 the end. Sept. li, wind S. ; new arrival seen was 

 one Eskimo Curlew, which I flushed out of some 

 moss on the stmd hill. Sept. 7, wind S., cloudy; 

 Roseate and, Common Tern very abundant on the 

 sand bars ; cine Jaeger seen. Sept. 8, wind N. E,, 

 cloudy ; SaAderlings less abundant, and nearly all 

 remaining,' are young. Young Black-bellied 

 Plover seen to-day for the first time ; Richardson's 

 Jaegars (Common; large jiumbers of White-bellied 

 and Ba^n Swallows flying about ; Sharp-tailed 

 Finches abundant. Sept. 9, witid S. W., rained 

 all dajr ; saw large numbers of Black Tern feeding 

 on the meadows that were overflowed; Sander- 

 linga diminishing every day. Sept. S3, wind S. E., 

 rained part of the day ; several large flocks of 

 Bl^ck-bellied Plover arrived. Sept. 33, wind 

 b/owing fresh from the N. W. ; the storm of last 

 n'ight caused a "flight" of Shorebirds. I found 

 on the Hats, at low tides, Sanderlings, Bed-backed 

 Sandjiipers (young) and Black-bellied Plover 

 abundant. On the meadows, which thfe rain had 



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overflowed, I found Semipalmated, Least, Red- 

 backed and Pectoral Sandpipers abundant. 

 Greater Yellowdegs and Willets also seen on the 

 meadows. Collected two Hudsonian Curlew and 

 one Bonaparte's Sandpiper out ot a flock of Semi- 

 palmated Sandpipers. After flushing the Pectoral 

 [Sandpipers, noticed some would only fly a short 

 distance and drop down in the grass, while others 

 would jump up like the Wilson's Snipe and fly in 

 m irregular course until at quite an altitude, when 

 they would circle for a short time overhead, then 

 suddenly pitch down and alight in the same place 

 they started from. AVhen they fly a short dis- 

 tance their cry is a single low "tweet," but when 

 they spring up quickly and fly a long distance 

 their ciy is louder and often repeated. Sept. 34, 

 while in the meadows collecting Pectoral Sand- 

 pipers, I had the good fortune to secure an adult 

 male Buff-breasted Sandpiper that was leaving 

 the meadows high up in the air. Sept. 85, wind 

 N, blew very fresh in the afternoon ; shore birds 

 not as abundant as the day previous ; new arrival 

 was a Hudsonian Godwit, which I shot on the 

 flats. One small flock of Golden Plover seen, 

 Richardson's Jaegers more abundant ; saw six at 

 one time chasing Tern, Sept, 36, wind S, ; only 

 a few Sanderlings seen ; Pectoral Sandpipers are 

 diminishing in numbers. Found a Sora Rail dead 

 on the beach, probably killed by flying against a 

 Stake, Sept, 38, wind N,, cloudy with light rains 

 all day ; found Hudsonian Curlew, Greater Yel- 

 low-legs and young Ked-breasted Sandpipers 

 common ; several small flocks of Black-bellied 

 Plover seen. Loons and Sea Coot flying about. 

 Sept, 39, wind N. ; Richardson's Jaegers com- 

 mon ; also saw two Long-tailed Jaegers ; collected 

 3ix Jaegers in different plumage. When one is 

 Shot the others hang over it, so that many can be 

 killed at one time. Saw as many as twenty-five 

 sitting on the flats. Several that I shot had sand 

 eels in their bills. Sept. 30, wind N. ; only a few 

 Pectoral Sandpipers seen on the meadows ; a largo 

 dock of Black Ducks noticed. Shot an American 

 Bittern near a small pond hole, 



October 1, wind N, ; Jaegers abundant ; several 

 flocks of Sanderling seen, also a few Black-bellied 

 Plover, Oct, 3, wind K, E,, foggy; found one 

 Bonaparte's Sandpiper on the flats in company 

 with Red-backed, do, Sanderlings scarce ; Terns 

 leaving, A small flight of Greater Yellow-legs 

 arrived last night, Oct, 3, wind W. : a few Sand- 

 erlings and Bed-backed Sandpipers remain. 

 Greater Yellow-legs quite abundant; a small 

 flock of the Black-bellied Plover seen. Saw 

 Several Green-winged Teal and Shovellers in a 

 small pond on the meadows. Saw a Turnstone 

 on the beach. Large Gulls abundant. 



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