ARTICLE III. 
SEPTEMBER AMONG THE GAME BIRDS OF MISCOU 
ISLAND.* 
By J. Orne Green, M. D. 
It has been my fortune to have spent every month of 
September during the last twenty-eight years on the Island of 
Miscou in camp on “the moss” of the eastern end of the island. 
I have always arrived on the island about August 26th, and have 
left about September 27th, and whatever value the following 
observations have is due to their being confined to this season 
extending over many years. The accompanying is a full list of 
the game birds observed: 
Tringa canutus. Knot. Red-breasted Sandpiper. Gray-back. 
“ maculata. Pectoral Sandpiper. Grass Bird. 
" fuscicollas. White-rumped Sandpiper. 
“ minutilla. Least Sandpiper. 
Ereunetes pusillus. Semipalmated Sandpiper. 
Calidris arenaria. Sanderling. / 
Limosa haemastica. Hudsonian Godwit. Ringtailed Marlin. 
Totanus melanoleucus. Winter Yellow-legs. 
“ flavipes. Summer Yellow-legs. 
Numenius longirostris. Long-billed Curlew. Sickle-bill. 
Hudsonicus. Jack Curlew. 
borealis. Eskimo Curlew. Dough-bird. 
Charadrius squatarola. Beatle-head. Black-breast. 
* Dr. Green is a resident of Boston, a retired professor of the Harvard 
Medical School. His many long visits to Miscou were in part for sport, 
but chiefly for the free wild outdoor life that island permits. This paper 
was prepared in 1905 so that his twenty-eight years of knowledge of the 
island extend back to 1877. The various localities of which he speaks 
may be found marked upon the physiographic map of Miscou Island in 
the preceding Bulletin at page 450. “The moss” is the same as the “moors 
(barrens”) of that map, which shows the two Malbaies and Big Lake, 
while Little Shippegan Harbor is the same as Miscou Harbor. Dr. Green’s 
camp at Miscou was on the eastern side of the little stream shown by 
the map as emptying a tiny lake into the northern end of Malbaie South. 
Dr. Green has purchased a farm at Tweedside, near the Northwest 
Oromocto Lake, where he intends to spend his summers in future. — 
Editor Bulletin. 
553 
