Sept. 9 Char y warm: In A.M. bagged about the poun & skinned my birds. The P.fungus was in good flesh but literally alive with parasites. It proved a g. I also shot a very fine D.virginis & a J.hymach3. Last night the air seemed literally filled with migrating warbles & the note of the nigh bird heard so often last year was also not wanting. I believe I then referred it with some doubt to Hy. Loudovic. Last evening I criticized it very carefully & came to the decision that it is not made by that bird but by some species unknown or at least unrecognized by one. It resembles somewhat the note of Cardus Swain, but I think is not that latter. Whatever may be its author the species must be a large (common) one as I hear them nearly any dark night. Warbles are getting very scarce in the woods with the exception of D.striata & coronata. In P.M. wrote a few letters & skinned a bird or two. S.& B. went down on the marsh and B. killed a snipe the only one that they saw. Sept. 10 Fair day but very sultry and smokey with S.wind. Took the boat in the morning and got off at B. point, Paddled ashore at Sargents landing and shot a small tract of corn for duck. He soon started some birds in my hard shooting, and I bagged 4 in 9 shots. S. did not fire at all. We started at the utmost east over 5 birds. Only one or two of them