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Shore Birds of Cape Cod. 
John C. Cahoon. 
Spotted Sandpiper, Actitis macularia , (Linn.) 
Peep, Tip-up, or more commonly Ox Eye on 
Cape Cod. An abundant summer resident. 
They arrive in pairs as early as the middle of 
April and become common by the first or sec- 
ond week in May, and a few remain as late as 
the second week in October. It is not confined 
to the sea shore but is quite evenly distributed 
over most portions of the Cape. It commences 
to nest about the middle or latter part of May, 
and young birds full feathered are seen by the 
2nd of July, in a favorable season. They are I 
usually found about wet meadow land, pond 
streams and pools, but I have found it nesting 
in wheat fields at a considerable distance from 
any water. From fifty to one hundred pair 
breed on Monomoy Island each season. Their 
nests are usually placed in the beach grass near 
the beach and occasionally on a bunch of dry 
sea weed above high water mark on the sandy 
beach, and is loosely constructed of dry sea- 
weed and grass. It is often a mere depression 
in the sand. There are few observers of bird 
life in New England who are not familiar with 
the “peet-weet” notes of this little wader, and 
its curious habits of tipping its body and tail up 
and down which has given it the appellation of 
“Tip-up,” by which it is best known. The 
young birds are able to run about as soon as 
they are hatched, and if pursued will often try 
to escape by taking to the water, and I have 
seen them swim a short distance under the 
water near the shore where it was shallow, 
their feet touching the bottom and using their 
wings as well as their feet to help along their 
progress through the water. 
(To be continued.) 
O.&O. XIII, Sept. 1888 p.132 
