. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . lack-billed Cuckoo. , Bobolink. Golden-winged Woodpecker. Cow-bird. Chimney Swallow. Orchard Oriole. King-bird. Baltimore Oriole. Pewee. Crow Blackbird. Least Flycatcher. Common Crow. Wilsons Thrush. Blue Jay. Maryland Yellow-throat. Quail. Golden-winged Warbler. Night Heron. Redstart. Semi-palmated Plover. Barn Swallow. Piping Plover. Cedar-bird. Least Sandpiper. Cat-bird. Least Tern. Brown Thrush. Arctic Tern. Purple Finch. Roseate Tern. Id remarks, Mr. Whitman sa3^s: Dr. Samuelsspeaks of the turnstone as seldom seen in numbermore than two or three. But Mr. H. W.
. Pigeon Cove and vicinity . lack-billed Cuckoo. , Bobolink. Golden-winged Woodpecker. Cow-bird. Chimney Swallow. Orchard Oriole. King-bird. Baltimore Oriole. Pewee. Crow Blackbird. Least Flycatcher. Common Crow. Wilsons Thrush. Blue Jay. Maryland Yellow-throat. Quail. Golden-winged Warbler. Night Heron. Redstart. Semi-palmated Plover. Barn Swallow. Piping Plover. Cedar-bird. Least Sandpiper. Cat-bird. Least Tern. Brown Thrush. Arctic Tern. Purple Finch. Roseate Tern. Id remarks, Mr. Whitman sa3^s: Dr. Samuelsspeaks of the turnstone as seldom seen in numbermore than two or three. But Mr. H. W. Woodsand myself have seen flocks of twenty-five andthirty on ]Milk Island and elsewhere. They arevery common here in the spring and in the to the list of eggs: This is my list ofeggs found on Cape Ann. There are many birds,beside, accustomed to breeding here. I have inmy collection of eggs, obtained both here and else-where, one hundred and thirty-two kinds. 176 PIGEON COVE AND VICLNIXr. MINERALS OF CAPE OCEAN VIEW HOUSE. ?Since the whole Cape is composed of granitehills and ledges, streaked with trap, blotched withporph}Ty and quartz, and overstrewn with boul-ders, the mineralogists have here a rare pierce and rive the huge and grand forms, toobtain the more precious minute ones within get the purest quartz crystals from the solidheart of the quarry, and moon-stones from narrowcrevices downward tliirty feet from the top of theledge. They have found on the Cape specimensof more than thirty classes of minerals, three ofwhich have been discovered nowhere else. Incited ]VnNEEALS OF CAPE ANN. 177 by the ever visible hints of the various substanceswhich are secreted in the ledges, blocks of granite,and boulders and pebbles around them, theyadvance from the first steps of their study andsearch, until by means of correspondence andexchange they bring together specimens of min-erals from all parts of the earth. There are two valuable private c
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