July 21-1874 Concord Mass. When I have seen the bird before, the chip of the Qi: different noticeably appreciably from that of N. Rufa. That of it yours was quite different from anything I have heard very far & other. The Motothus was fully grown & was attended by a Q. Pennsylvania. The chipping of the young S. Junilla was different from that of do. Sociol: much weaker. A pair of Disci monbracensis which were fairly thin young scolded me with a continuous harsh chatter very like that of D. flaripara. Birds are still up full & I but most of the young I shot were passing into their second plumage. July 21 Condy in S. M. Clear: off beautifully at noon. Took the 4 P. M. train for Concord, & after getting supper at the Branch's Dan'y I took an early start up the Assabet. That naturally beautified river was looking its best in its hyginant garb of summer green and brown of its scenery certainly surpasses anything that I have yet seen in Mass. We got as far up as the "one arch bridge" by dark & then flitted most of the way back as the current was quite swift. Nearly