Seth. muticilla, a ♂ of last year that was beginning to moult his own plumage; the new feathers that had already feathered indicated a fall plumage like the young: whether the adult ♂ assumes this plumage or not I am at present uncertain). I heard two bird notes to -day that I was unable to determine); one was very like the chip-chip of Pyrrhura mosa (or may have been the call of the young. Aug. 6 When I came, I sprinkled a little in P.M. after breakfast with MS. Taken the higher road & going past one to the farm. Took 11 birds: the best H. pruninea, 4 2 Tigrina 1 (im. ♂) E. Kailla 1 ♀♀ & S. flavicorn. 1 (adlt ♂) Grocchilus columbus 1 (O.V.). Came across a brood of young E. Kaillii on Moffits farm; they were in a thicket of low bushes & the young as of the former Gwood called at qui witch while the ♀ saturated the path of attack. The humming was sitting on a high branch and did lift up an insect.