Scarce but took the best D. tigrina (ad.)...Ples willows 1 & g.y. changing...Rend coronata [male, without yellow rump] Seth. suticilla [ad. & dry to fall pl.] Empl. flammatus g.y., S. shot a Rend Penasi on nearly completed fall pl. also a Cont. Ponai ad. in good plumage. The saw our "partridge" an old cock. Aug. 8 Cloudy with E. wind & blowing in forenoon. After breakfast W.S. I myself went down river in my boat & I shot another bust D. coronata rd D. maculosa in fine fall plumage. A flock of Ag. senipalmatus came over the meadow but find no resting place passed out over the hills to the S. Bot. riparia is still with us as an Hb. horrons & Chaline Jutazicis. At 3 P.M. the rain holding off we went out again taking the Stony road. I took 7 birds I. pallasi 2 [nest, in fledgled pl.] Centopus grims 3 [2 nest!] Mr. Canadensis 1 [y.g & pl.] The young I. pallasi now chicking as in fall.