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Title: Birds of the Boston Public Garden : a study in migration
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Wright, Horace Winslow Shapiro Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co. Cambridge (Mass.) : Riverside Press
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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tly before getting downto Charles Street. T was a queer sight.He was close to the houses, as I remem-ber it, over the sidewalk, and, I should 6o BIRDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN think, must have felt as queer as helooked. In his essay On Boston Common** Mr.Torrey mentions once finding the body ofa Woodcock which had evidently met itsdeath against an electric wire. No recent records have been obtained. 6. Solitary Sandpiper Helodromas solitarius On May 3, 1905, and again on May 23,1907, a Solitary Sandpiper has come intothe Garden on the wing, lit upon the stonecurbing of the pond, and after taking twoor three successive flights over the waterhas departed, having made only a fewminutes* stay. These very brief visits sug-gest that such birds may come into theGarden more often than they have beenrecorded and pass out unobserved after,it may be, only a moments delay. Dr. Charles W. Townsend furnishes mewith an autumn record of a Solitary Sand-piper in the Garden, namely, on Septem-ber 27, 1905.
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THE EUROPEAN WHITE BIRCH SPOTTED SANDPIPER 6i 7. Spotted Sandpiper Actitis macularia In five of the nine seasons of observa-tion the Spotted Sandpiper has been re-corded; in four of these seasons a singlebird only has been seen. But in 1907 therewere three successive visits of the species;one of a bird on May 9, which remained ahalf-hour, following the curbing round thepond and taking flight to another portiononly when disturbed; another of a bird onMay 13; and the third visit was of twobirds on May 25, which made a more pro-longed stay and showed little dispositionto leave. On other occasions the departure of thevisitant has followed so closely upon itsentrance that there has been opportunityto view it only two or three times in itsflights over the water and clearly identifyit before it was gone. The records show the period of migra-tion of the Spotted Sandpiper through theGarden to be from May 9 to 25. 62 BIRDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN8. Bob-white Colinus virginianus Dr. Charles W. Town

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