132 Allen on the Destruction of Birds by Light-houses. 
land. A fixed red light ; height, 76 feet. A. H. Wargatt, keeper. March 
29, 1880. — • From the 15th of April till the loth of May the largest num- 
ber of birds strike the light ; the greatest number observed in one night 
is 23. Among those recognized are the Bluebird, the “Apple Bird" 
(Ampelis cedrorum, as shown by the writer’s description), the Scarlet 
Tanager, and “ Sparrows.” They strike in very dark nights, seldom in 
fair weather. During thick weather in May, 1879, there were large num- 
bers of small birds of different kinds about the light. “ During the five 
years I have been at this station I have never known the Sand Birds or 
Peeps to fly against the light.” 
3. Cape Ann Lights , three fourths of a mile from Cape Ann, Mass. 
Two fixed white lights; height, 165^ feet. Albert W. Steele, keeper. 
March 6, 1877. — Very few birds are killed by flying against the light 
except in May and June, when a “ Swamp Sparrow ” comes about the 
light, and is sometimes killed. “ Have known 6 to be killed in one night." 
Occasionally a sea bird is killed, — not more than 3 or 4 in a year. 
4. Marblehead Light , Marblehead Neck, Mass. Fixed white light ; 
height, 43 feet. James S. Bailey, keeper. April 1, 1877. — Very few 
birds strike the light. At one time 3 small ones were found dead outside 
the light. They are never around except in foggy nights. No damage 
has been done by birds striking for the last five years. 
5. Minot’s Ledge Light , Cohasset, Mass. Fixed white light ; height, 
92 feet. Levi L. Creed, keeper. May, 1877. — “ Sea and land birds of all 
kinds come about the light in fall and spring, and all kinds of land birds 
in summer if the weather is foggy or smoky. As many as 10 have been 
picked up at one time on the walk, but I think hundreds are killed and 
fall in the water.” 
6. Plymouth Light , Gurnet Point, Plymouth, Mass. Fixed white light; 
height, 102 feet. William Sears, keeper. March 22, 1877. — Bluebirds 
and u Ground Sparrows ” reported as quite often picked up dead around 
the light-house, but no further particulars are mentioned. 
7. Race Point Light , northwesterly point of Cape Cod, Mass. Fixed 
white light, varied by white flashes ; height, 51 feet. James Cashman, 
keeper. March 15, 1877. — “There never have been, to my knowledge, 
any birds killed by flying against the light.” 
8. Long Point Light , entrance to Provincetown Harbor, Mass. Fixed 
white light; height, 37 feet. — The keeper of this light recently told me 
that birds very rarely fly against it. 
9. Cape Cod Light, Highlands, North Truro, Mass. Fixed white light ; 
height, 195 feet. David F. Loring, keeper. March 5, 1877. — “ Now no 
sea birds fly against the light, as was the case in former years, except 
occasionally a Petrel, or Mother Carey’s Chicken, and a small bird called 
by the fishermen ‘ Bank Bird ’ (the latter said to resemble ‘ Shore Birds 
or Peeps’). These never come except in driving easterly storms, when 
they are occasionally very plenty. Two hundred are sometimes seen at 
