June 27 - 1874 Nantucket Mass. we found Cornuculus [illegible] in abundance: aided in one place in an area of 100 yds. I think then were four or five pairs and they stand girtly evenly distributed over the whole island, which is then or four miles in extent, I shot fifteen during the forenoon. Mr. M. ten, I had the good fortune to discover them nestling in my lot in a most interesting situation. They varied Connecticut individ uals with regard to wildness but as the aggregate are much tame than I have found them at Concord Mass. The males usually sing from the tops of small little shrubed red cedars that own (scattered) on the plain or in default of those from a bayberry or even a tall weed stalk. The ordinary song was as usually compared with the sir of some of the grasshoppers pebble (though entomologists) short > all over the same key. They had also another song new to us both -- a fluttering disconnected strain somewhat suggesting Cictethorus [illegible] but longer & less impetuous. This would frequently be continued 30 seconds at a time. The