June 18 - 1874 the two shot were feeding together on a sand beach, and found in dissection a 6's & 9 each with the generation organs in healthy condition. The testicles of the 6's are perhaps half the maximum size, while four of the ovaries of the 9 was as large as small peas and I think would undoubtedly have been laid sometime this season. The tuns now all paired, each pair sitting close together on the sand bars & keeping over each other while on wing. I saw a number flying about with mud fish in their bills which fact I cannot easily explain as they cannot (judging from the sexual organs which were hardly enlarged at all) can have laid yet. They have a frequent habit when sitting on the bars of raising both wings above their backs & exposing them to the breez. The wind moderating late in the P.M. we sailed out to the broy where we very soon satisfied the wants of all on board with scup & trauts, catching them in that most untutary way on hand lines. The scup is a most beautiful fish when first taken from the water, its scales tinged with a delicate rose color which fades soon after death. I also caught a huge rock bass.