Notes from Belohertown, Mass, 
J . W , J aokson 
Dec. 20, Wilson Snipe shot near mill- 
pond. 
O.&O.V 0 I.I 8 , Mar. 1803 p .46 
Nantucket Notes Nantucket' VlP ’a 1805, p - 3 / 0 . 
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Shore Birds of Gape Cod. 
John C. Oahoon. 
Wilson's Snipe, Gallinac/o delicata (Ord.) 
A common spring and autumn migrant. It 
'arrives in the spring early in April, and all do 
not pass before the middle of May. In autumn 
it reaches the Cape about the second week in 
August, but is not in full force until the middle 
or last week of September. On the Cape it is 
found on fresh marshes and springy bottoms at 
the edges of salt marshes. The best locality 
that I know of is a soft, muddy marsh near 
Harwich called the “ Grassy Pond.” It is very 
springy and miry, and is overflowed with water 
in the winter and spring, which dries away 
during the summer, leaving large pools of 
water in some places. It is crossed by several 
wide ditches and is covered by patches of grass, 
rushes, and lily pads. It is exceedingly hard, 
tiresome work traveling about on the marsh, 
and although in some parts there is a firm bot- 
tom, in most parts it is very miry, and one will 
sink to his hips at every step. On several oc- 
casions I have gone down into the mud up to 
my arms. I have had some line sport with 
duck, teal, rail birds and snipe, and have 
started as many as forty of the latter in a few r 
hours tramp over this marsh on a September 
morn. Of late years they have not been as 
plentiful in this and other localities on Cape 
Cod. Most of them leave by the last of Octo- 
ber, but a few remain until the soil freezes. 
0,&O, XlU.Aug. 1888 p. IQI 
Gallinago delicata. A pair spent the past severe winter along a small 
brook in the Arnold Arboretum. Tamaica Plain. Mass. 
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