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 Vol. XXXVIII xxxviii octet ig2o Helmuth, Notes while in Naval Service. ADD EXTRACTS FROM NOTES MADE WHILE IN NAVAL SERVICE

BY W T. HELMUTH

In the fall of 1917 the ship on which I served as seaman was assigned to inspection duty on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, under Rear-admiral C. McR. Winslow's flag. We left the navy yard at Brooklyn on October 20, 1917, and proceeded up the New England coast as far as Machiasport, Maine, which we reached on November first. We then journeyed south, close inshore, up the Delaware River to Philadelphia, thence to Nor- folk, Va., arriving on Thanksgiving day. We left Norfolk on February 23, 1918, proceeding south to Key West, Fla. From here we went directly to Pensacola, Fla. ; from Pensacola to New Orleans, up the south pass of the Mississippi; from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas; thence to Port Arthur, Texas, and across the Gulf of Mexico to Tampa, Fla., arriving on April 1, 1918. From Tampa our course took us again to Key West, up the east coast of Florida to Jacksonville, and thence north to Charleston, S. C, stopping at Brunswick and Savannah, Ga. During this time I had excellent opportunities to study the birds met with offshore, and a few chances to watch land birds on our all too infrequent "liberties" in various places. Some of these notes may be of interest to readers of ' The Auk, ' and I ap- pend them herewith. My very sincere thanks are due to Mr. John Treadwell Nichols, of the American Museum of Natural History, who was kind enough to read the original, and perhaps too voluminous, notes, and whose suggestions have been invaluable in the separation of the wheat from the chaff. I Notes from New England Coast North of Cape Cod, Autumn of 1917. Across Massachusetts Bay from Provincetown to Boston, late October. Boston toward Machiasport, Me., sixty-sixty-five miles offshore, October 31; to Machiasport and Bar Harbor, in-