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Knot (Tringa canutus ) Wintering in Massachusetts — The winter rec- 
ords of our shore birds are so scanty that any new addition should be 
very welcome, and in this connection I want to record the taking of two 
Knots at Chatham on Dec. 31, 1909 — the very last day of the year. A 
friend of mine to whom the birds were sent identified them, which he 
described as being in the immature gray plumage and in as good condition 
as fat young birds killed in the early fall. A party from Chatham were 
out after rabbits on Monomoy Island near the flats and marshes which the 
shore birds frequent in summer, when these two birds flew by. As they 
were thought to be Black-bellied Plover the corresponding whistle was 
given, whereupon both birds wheeled about, and as they came nearer 
they were seen to be Knots. They were shot and both fell on solid ice. 
As the last week’m December was bitterly cold, in fact the coldest part 
of the winter, for the thermometer several times touched zero, it seems 
strange that these birds should have stayed north, especially as everything 
was frozen up and the flats and feeding grounds were covered with ice. 
How they managed to find any sustenance, to say nothing of their being 
fat, seems a mystery. That same week I was on Martha’s Vineyard Island 
where I found a male Chewink wintering, which I reported in ‘The Auk/ 
Volume XXVII, p. 220. — S. Pkescott Fay, Boston, Mass. 
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