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Islands, about 8th September; young golden plover come 
about 20th September. * 
A friend at Newfoundland writes, “Snipe, sanderlings and 
yellowlegs are plenty—the latter breed ” Thinks the Es¬ 
quimaux curlew breed at Labrador. They are so plenty the 
fishermen kill them and salt them up in barrels. They arrive 
at Labrador before they reach Newfoundland in millions, 
so that they darken the sky as they rise. Large flocks of 
sanderlings and grass-birds arrive late in the fall. He be¬ 
lieves the birds go to Prince Edward’s Island, and thence to 
South America. 
Another good authority remarks as follows : “At the Mag¬ 
dalen Islands millions of golden plover and dough-birds 
come every year, in August and September. They feed on 
the uplands, and go on to the high beach at night to roost. 
So plenty are they that on a dark night one with a lantern 
and stick may kill bushels of them.’' The same party re¬ 
ports seeing, in 1864, as late as October, on the coast from 
Chediac to Dalhousie, immense numbers of these birds. Mr. 
E., an intelligent merchant of Boston, informs us he has 
visited Prince Edward’s Island for nine consecutive years, 
and has failed but twice to get good shooting. They have a 
“flight” of birds there on an east wind just the same as at 
Cape Cod. Is of the opinion that birds feeding in a certain 
field this year, unmolested, will return the next year to the 
same field. In one day he shot green plover, Esquimaux 
curlew and summer yellowlegs in a field where, as he 
alleges, they came to feed on herds-grass seed. Many of the 
, birds reach the Bay of Fundy by crossing the narrow belt 
of land from Straits of Northumberland. 
If the birds strike boldly out to sea from Nova Scotia in a 
southerly direction, as it is very clear they do, it would carry 
them to the Lesser Antilles. Now, it is settled beyond a 
peradventure, that they do have a “flight” there just the same 
as at Newfoundland and Cape Cod. From the Barbadoes, 
the most windward of the Windward Islands, we have the 
most positive assurance of a “fi ght.” One of the memor¬ 
able events recorded in the almanac of the island is “Sept. 
