100 
Ereunetes pusillus, 
Ryo Beach, Nev/' Hampshire. 
il 
1868. i 
Aug. 17. 
1 shot the first to-day. After this they were more 
numerous than the Least Sandpipers. The 3 f frequented 
the beach and Eel pond about equally. Their habits 
are similar to those of the Least Sandpiper but their 
notes very different, being harsher and lov/er in tone. 
They are very quarrelsome chasing one another along the 
water’s edge and uttering a twittering chatter differ¬ 
ent from the usual call-note. 
1871. 
July 26. 
A moderate flight. 
Aug, 7. 
A very heavy flight of this species . Tringa minu- 
til la, and A.egialites semipalmata indiscriminately miner- 
led. 
“ 20. 
An extraordinary flight of those arid Least Sandpi¬ 
pers, several flocks containing at least one hundred 
birds. 
•• 21. 
A heavy flight lasting through the forenoon. Cloudy 
vrith rain from the south-west. 
“ 22. 
An extraordinary flight of “Peeps” all the afternoon, 
pany flocks containing upv/ards of one hundred birds, 
flock succeeding flock in rapid succession. Upon shoot¬ 
ing into several flocks at random I found the two species 
(this and Tringa minutilia) in the prnpnrtinn nf ninA 
Ereunetes to one .Tringa minutills. Two weoks acm -it. 
v/as just the reverse. 
“ 25. 
The flights of “Peeps” chiefly of this species dur¬ 
ing the past three or four days have been simply extraor¬ 
dinary. Often thousands have aassed through tha 
in the course of a fev/ hours. 
“ 26. 
i 
Poops (chiefly of this species) passing to-day in 
oven greater nimibors than before. At times they cams 
literally in clouds and I found it impossible to count 
or even estimate their numbers. The larger flocks were 
nearly always led by a dozen or more Aegialitos semioal- 
mates. - 
1 
“ 28. 
Only a few insignificant flocks of “Peeps” v/ore 
seen to-day. 
“ 29. 
1 
Less than a half a dozen“Poops”,all single birds 
soon today. ’ 
-- 
Sept. 1., 
1 
Eivepor six flocks passed to-day7^ 
^ 30. ! 
perhaps four or five single birds. 
1872. 
i 
! 
Not especially distinguished, or at least mentioned 
fli^Ls^of^ipA^^ doubtless well represented in the heavy 
i&hts of Peeps that occurred July 22 and 26. 
