I houred on time term style. This bird I also killed but the remaining one escaped. Their flight was peculiar & very humble any of the other Species; it more resembled a swallow or a petrel and they kept quite high up frequently hastening about 1000 feet or more above the water! Again they would seem to be skimming its surface flying easily along & occasionally dropping down like a fall but in no instance in the course of an hours observation did I see one actually touch the surface. Upon distraction I found their stone acts filled entirely with insects; principally grasshoppers with a few Coleoptera & Diptera. All were quite fat but their bodies omitted none of that salty fishy smell peculiar to the marine Species. The only note that I heard was a shrill & rather feeble keek, keek. Their they looked from every side nearly black, & about as large as night hawks. Saw a few Rhyncophelus out during the day & five or six offspring. The latter is a very shy bird here. A Providence gentleman took some fine trout today at Standwate