"Habits of the golden plover" 201 Nantucket, 1875. (Sept. 25) Eating lunch here we drove to Hammock pond where I fired into a bunch of sandlars and killed 9 with a single barrel. At the report a flock of about 50 Ch. Virginicus rose from the shore beyond where they had been sitting unnoticed on the sand and turning at Fish's whistle came up to within about 60 yds. When I and I let them barrels into them and killed four: three were birds of the year and one a fine adult; all were getting fat. They came up in perfect silence and but for their dark color I should have taken them for Sny necks so small did they look on wing. They were afterwards joined by a still larger flock and all together disappeared over the sand hills. Afterwards we saw a flock of about 20 sitting on a sand spit when I tried to stalk them but found them too shy. They fly very swiftly and in a compact body, giving indeed a considerable semblance to a flock of wild pigeons. We found their tracks larry where on the sandy beaches of the pond. Their notes I heard only one and that faintly; it is different from that of S. Melitica a single low mellow whistle Reached the home by 5 P.M.