sportsman (Mr. John Dodol) a Bald eagle was shot near my decoys this afternoon. Aug. 18th Morning clear and cold with wind from the North all night. At about sunrise two Geal were seen on the pond and two (Divers divers) secured (Mr. Neil Davis). Only one G. flaviipes and a few small flocks of Geese were observed during the morning and forenoon but about 3 P.M. a very strong S. Eastward wind spring up and a flock of about ten G. flaviipas accompanied by them G. melanoleuca came into the marsh: Later another G. melanoleuca with a G. flaviipes and a solitary Ar. maculata Aug. 19th Clear and cool with strong Westerly wind. Early in the morning at daybreak more G. flaviipes flew and the first Stinga Canutus was killed, an adult male in the full breeding plumage. A minimum of Spatula vulpina was also shot on the Eel pond; a young female in good plumage: it was worthiness near the grassy margins and was easily approached which was perhaps accounted for by the facts that both eyes were much obscured by or white skin like process that was fast destroying the poor birds sight. In the afternoon a large flock of perhaps a dozen G. flaviipes passed through. Aug. 20th Chas. Very cold in A.M. the thermometer falling to probably 50 deg. At daylight we discovered a flock of nine Divers divers on the pond, and as it was Sunday they were unassisted for a long time. Through the forenoon they remained in nearly the