Rye Beach, N.H. 18 1871 and was struck by the similar air motion of the former to th. isolated Gal/Mlsonii Aug. 9th Clear w/sw S.East wind Saw as many as a dozen large flocks of G. flavipes but few specimens of M. griseus. Large flocks of 'Peeps' also flew and I shot four A. maculata one of which was so fat as scarely to be able to fly. The G. flavipes are now nearly all birds of the year and very animated plumaged but I have not yet found any specimen of M. griseus in similar condition. This is a small nursery of N. Garden's &d spruces near back of the house, and the birds fly over to the marsh way right at dusk. Heard the first Pacer Pleur yesterday, probably S. Olearicea) I heard the first Actitisus Bartramius this evening about 9 clock flying over in the twilight. Aug. 2 Foggy in N.W. Scarly still with light mist from the S. East. Saw only one flock of G. flavipes The whole forenoon. Als and A. Bartramicus, and an immature Circus Hudsonicus beating about over th marshes. In P.M. several small flocks of G. flavipes passed through the marsh and discovered a very fine adult M. griseus. Saw also one of the large Phom and what I took to be S. canutus. On the beach saw several Cal. arnamia the first and a single specimen of S. interpres. Aug 3 Clear and very warm. Spent the forenoon over the marsh but saw nothing but a pair of S. maculata and a few Peeps. In P.M. saw a single M. griseus