April 17th I heard and saw a pair of Piping Plover on the 
beach near Sandy Point. 
April 24th and 25th when the E. C. O. C. visited my camp 
at the Island we found five Piping Plover, one of which had 
the black band entirely encircling the breast, as in the once 
accepted but now discarded sub-species, the Belted Piping 
Plover. Piping Plover were still present on the Island on 
July 20th, but at my next visit, July 27th, had gone. This 
species breeds commonly in this region and I several times 
this season saw young birds with the adults, but found no 
nests. 
While on a fishing trip, off to sea from Plum Island, on 
May 28th, I saw my first Terns for 1920. There were both 
Wilson and Roseate and with them were Herring, Bonaparte 
and Laughing Gulls, all feeding upon the sand eels, driven to 
the surface by schools of pollock and codfish. The Terns 
were being pestered by their enemies, the Jaegers. This 
flocking of the gull tribe over a feeding ground is looked for 
by fishermen as a sign of good fishing for cod and pollock 
awaiting them. 
July 19th, Terns were present in great numbers and I saw 
one Black Tern. From then until my last trip Gulls and 
Terns were present or absent as their food fish swung in or 
off shore. 
August 1st. There was a flight of shore birds, including 
Dowitchers, Semi-palmated Sandpipers, Lesser Yellow-legs 
and Semi-palmated Plover. 
September 4th, I found Red-backed Sandpipers, Greater 
Yellow-legs, Black-bellied Plover and Ruddy Turnstones. 
September 6th, I saw ten Hudsonian Curlew and one Long¬ 
billed Curlew. I have heard more reports from gunners at 
the Island of the last named species being seen and shot this 
year than ever before. 
I collected an albino Semi-palmated Sandpiper. Its eyes 
were pink, legs pinkish and plumage white with light brown 
spots on back ard wings. 
August 8th there were two American Egrets on the marsh 
back of my camp. 
