Rye Beach, N. H. 1871. Upon our arrival all the birds settled down for the season and in full song. The number of birds in the woods was absolutely astonishing and far exceeded anything that I ever saw in the most favored locality in Massachusetts. Perhaps the cultivated fields of flax and musgins, that every where swarmed had something to do with this but or that as it may all species of small birds last especially the warblers were excessively abundant everywhere. Rye N. H. 1871 July 26th Started from Cambridge July 26th and drove down to Rye arriving there about noon the next day. Return Ploceus and Andor had the gallant diving and watched a H. howsoni playing with a Nestle quill feather repeatedly, carrying it up into the air then dropping it again: only 27th on the road down saw a pair of Spil socialis copulating while the o held in this bill food for her yoking. A short distance from the Sea View House I heard three Spoliki (singing at once and a & Bex Satapa in full song. Saw the P.M. went out on the marsh and found Gambetta (flavipes flying Southwest in flocks of upwards of twenty. Saw jacks, thirty or forty in the course of th afternoon. Left of these shot were adult but one was our young and wondering tame. Petstron saxifrutta and & E. petrefictus flew through the marsh in large flocks all the afternoon. July 28. Cloudy with driving fog and heavy rain from the N East in P.M. Gambetta flew in tolerable numbers through this day.