Gonoral Observations on the Migration of Waders. 
Rye Beach, Nev/ Hampshire, 
1871. 
(Aug.20)1; one flock close on the heels of the proceeding. Some 
flocks contained at least one hundred birds. No fl ight 
of other Waders and less than a dozen Totanus flavines 
during the day. '- 
21.:; Cloudy v/-ith rain from the south-v/est during the ■ 
morning and strong chilly east wind in the afternoon. 
Again a very heavi flight of Ereunotes pusillus and Trin- 
^ mimitjJJj^^ lasting through the forenoon. Only tvro 
and one Totanus flavipes passed. 
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Clear and warm strong east wind in the afternoon 
when there v/as another heavy flight of “Peeps" and a mod¬ 
erate one of Aegialites .semipalmata , but no other birds 
worth mei.tioning. 
Day broke cloudy and damp with a slight v/ind from 
the south-west. By 9 A.M. the sun came out and the day 
proved one of the hottest of the season, the v/ind being 
Very light and at times dying away altogether. Despite 
those apparently unfavorable conditions the flight of 
Waders was, next to that of August 10, the largest of the 
season. It began at daybreak and lasted without inter- 
mission until dark. Totanus flavipes prodomTr.at.ed 
among the largo birds coming in small flocks and decoying 
unusually v/ell. Macrorhamphus griseus also flow in 
groat numbers, some flocks of fifteen or tvrenty being 
seen. ^ There were a few .Totanus melanoluca in nearly 
every flock of Jlot,.,anu.s f 1 avi p es. Trinea maeulata was 
also unusually abundant, flying, usually singly or in 
pairs, but in one instance eight v/ero seen together. 
X.bor^pa^tei v^as also comparatively numerous, at least a 
dozen being noted, and there Yras a steady flight of 
ActituruS - ^aj:*J a* ,a inj.u s_, overhead as usual. Aegialites 
ymiplam aja. and both “Peeps" also flow in great numbers. 
For the last three or four days they have flown almost 
unceasingly in extraordinary numbers, thousands often 
passing through the marsh in the course of a fev^ hours. 
I killed in all just sixty large birds. 
and 
Cloudy with chill north-east wind driving gusts of 
rain. “Peeps” flew in clouds all day, some of the flocks 
eing larger than I ever savr before. The larger flocks 
contained many Asgialites somipalmata . No flight v^orth 
mentioning of larger species. 
1872. i 
.July 21.: The “flight" has alraddy begun; a few small flocks 
of X.lQiliUtilla. passed through the marsh to-day. (C'ear 
and warm). 
22. “Peeps”, all, i think T. minutilla , flew in good 
numbers to-day. i also saw throe Macrorhamph us f^risous 
? ^^-^stworthy gunner, tolls mo he saw 
V. ^ 1 large flocks of this species July 20. ( ^^ainod 
hard all day; wind east to south-east). ‘ 
