. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . t which attaches to these flights. After nesting inthe arctic regions, these plover and curlew proceed in Augustto Labrador. Thence they pass to Nova Scotia, and thensouth over the ocean, resting occasionally on its surface, butavoiding the dangerous shores of the United States. Cross-ing the West Indies, they are said to land on the shores ofBrazil, and thence pass down to Argentina, and even Pata-gonia. If a gale blows them ofl this course, and compelsthem to touch on our much-hunted sh
. Wild wings; adventures of a camera-hunter among the larger wild birds of North America on sea and land . t which attaches to these flights. After nesting inthe arctic regions, these plover and curlew proceed in Augustto Labrador. Thence they pass to Nova Scotia, and thensouth over the ocean, resting occasionally on its surface, butavoiding the dangerous shores of the United States. Cross-ing the West Indies, they are said to land on the shores ofBrazil, and thence pass down to Argentina, and even Pata-gonia. If a gale blows them ofl this course, and compelsthem to touch on our much-hunted shores, they leave themat the earliest possible moment. In the spring they return to THE SHORE PATROL 209 the far North through the interior of the United States. Thefirst flight off New England seems to occur about the last tendays of August, and is only of adult birds. The young do notreach us till about the middle of September, The youngGolden Plovers used to frequent, in late September, the Back-Bay marshes of Boston, which I then considereda splendid plover ground ; but this is a thing of the TURNSTONES. THE BIRDS FED UP NEAR TO ME The desire to see more of the shore-birds, rapidly becom-ing scarce on the New England coast, started me off, a fewseasons ago, about the middle of August, along the easterncoast of Nova Scotia. I kept travelling until I found anideal spot, — fine lonely sand-beaches pounded by the surf,extensive salt marshes back of them, and an inlet whosesand-flats furnished unsurpassed feeding-ground for hosts ofshore-birds. The very first birds I saw were four HudsonianCurlews walking about in their sedate fashion in the drysand and grass above the beach on which were sportingflocks of smaller shore-birds. I had seen enough to convince 2IO WILD WINGS me, and forthwith I engaged board with a fishermans familywho lived close by. All my favorable impressions were fully confirmed duringthe two weeks of my stay. The beaches and flats abounded inlife. Sand
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