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“ The birds soon ceased to sing, and as it was almost useless to 
try to put them up from the grass, I let them alone, after making 
several fruitless efforts to find their nests. In August I chanced to 
pass through the same locality, and was surprised to hear the same 
bird singing again. I spent several days hunting for them and 
got only three in worn and faded plumage. These were so different 
from my April specimens that I thought them to be P. cestivalis 
until your letter of recent date. 
“ The song I cannot describe ; it has one note which renders it 
distinguishable from all other birds which I have heard, and which 
is readily distinguishable from that of Peuccea cassini. Upon the 
whole, it is a very soft, plaintive, and pleasing chant.” 
NOTES ON BIRDS OBSERVED AT LONG BEACH, NEW 
JERSEY. 
BY W. E. D. SCOTT. 
Long Beach, New Jersey, like many other islands that form a 
barrier between the ocean and the bays of the Atlantic coast, from 
Long Island southward, is a long narrow strip of sand, extending 
•from Barnegat Inlet on the north to Little Egg Harbor, a distance of 
about twenty-four miles. It nowhere exceeds a mile in width, and 
often has a breadth of only a few hundred feet, while at many 
points it is so low that during very high tides the bay and ocean com- 
municate. Its distance from the main-land is about seven miles. 
The sand, beginning at the surf, extends back perfectly level for 
some distance, just above high water; then sand-hills from twenty 
to forty feet high rise abruptly, forming miniature precipices on 
the side toward the ocean ; they slope off gradually toward the bay, 
and finally terminate in low marshy ground. The sands have no 
vegetation ; the hills are generally covered with a stunted growth 
of a kind of bayberry ( Myrica cerifera), and at some points with a few 
cedars and a little coarse grass. The marsh land is covered with 
a dense growth of coarse grasses, reeds, and the like. In the bay, 
are smaller islands, consisting wholly of “marsh,” which at one 
point almost connect Long Beach with the main-land. 
The following observations were made principally during a resi- 
