Jan. 1874 Middlesex County, Mass. 1874. January 24 pages 130-134. It also rose in slow circles to an immense height without flapping its wings at all for several minutes getting into the bushes again we drove up to Waverly and getting the team with considerable difficulty up the rough rocky wood path I tied the horse and we commenced to rammap round through the woods. Although birds were very scarce, the enjoyment to me of being once more in the woods with literally sound legs under me was after my long imprisonment enough & I enjoyed the forenoon to the utmost. I shot 5 Regulus Satrapa & Scott a Barns striat. We saw also a small flock of Chry. trister and a Picus pubescens. On the way home I fired at a Crow with Scott's gun & took feathers at very long range, 90 yds at least. Two Melos. Melodia were seen to day & one shot (F. Bailey Newton) Jan. 25 Very cold & windy; ground entirely bare. Sol F.W. drove over to Medford with E. Carter & called on my ornithological friend W. Thompson. On the way saw a very large & white Collyrio bunalis feeding on a bird apparently half as large as itself. It was sitting on a low brush by the roadside. I at our approach grasped the bird in its claws and with legs extended down to their full length, flew heavily to an adjacent