THE AUDUBON: BULLETIN 19 
wings for escape from enemies. She is not even so protectively colored 
as her housekeeping husband. 
From May 10 to 30, this year, I have observed as many as three 
hundred Northern Phalaropes on a trip afield. The Wilson Phalaropes 
arrived earlier and tarried longer, according to my records. The many 
lakes and swamps of this region give us many water and shore birds in 
addition to land birds. My April and May, 1929, list numbers all told 
one hundred twenty-seven species positively identified. Ducks are here 
by the thousands. I have counted as many as sixty Avocets in one 
flock. It is a great joy to see the busy little Phalaropes whirling and 
swimming among Ducks and Coots and Avocets, with stately Great 
Blue Herons hard by. How busy they are and how much they seem to 
be doing. Experience with our Lady of the Wounded Wing, however, 
makes me think now, when I behold their excessive activity, that 
accomplishment with them is more in semblance than in substance— 
there seems to be much ado about little. How long it will be my privilege 
and pleasure to witness such sights I cannot say. 
Roy M. Lancpon. 

