Local names of the shore birds
Nantucket.
1875.
Sept. 21 [September 21, 1875] unmistakable note of S. paradisea [Sterna paradisea]
but was unable to shoot the bird.
The young S. hirundos [Sterna hirundo] [?] the numerical
proportion to the adults of perhaps 
1 to 3. The note is much the same but
more shrill and querulous. Sometimes
I saw one of the young birds 
following the adult and apparently
begging for food. Calidris arenaria
Aeg. semipalmatus [Aegialitis semipalmatus] & E. pusillus [Ereunetes pusillus], were
all abundant and one or two T.
minutilla [Tringa minutilla] were shot. Had a hard
pull back against wind and tide,
stopping only once when I went 
ashore and made a most laborious
stalk up to a Ch. Virginicus [Charadrius virginicus] which
I fired at at long range & missed:
the young bird of this species is
known the "pale belly": the sandling [sanderling] is
called "pesque", probably from its note.
Before supper skinned the birds
shot yesterday.
  Sept. 22 [September 22, 1875]
Clear and very cold. Wind N.W. [northwest] &
blowing half a gale. Hired a horse &
wagon & with Fisher as guide set
out immediately after breakfast. Drove
over to Smith's beach (9 miles) seeing on
the way 2 ducks, and a pair of 
Numenius Hudsonicus. The latter rose
out of the grass not over 20 yds. from
the wagon and upon Fisher's imitating
their rolling whistle of 5 or 6 notes, came
back and gave me a long double shot.