Rye Beach, N.H. 27 1871. August. passed through in the forenoon Aug. 22nd Clear and warm; stiff East wind in P.M. At about sunset found two Lms discors sitting over my dicery and killed them both (both S). Saw a small flock of fin or six G. flavipes in the morning and about noon two Nec. griseus accompanied by a St. intefus In P.M. there was a most extraordinary flight of Peeps over a hundred bars frequently seen in a flock; upon shooting a number I found the two species, viz. the proportion of about nine Gs. petrificatus to one Nc. dominula, whereas two weeks ago it was precisely the reverse. The dominula also flew in small flocks and I was quite certain that I detected Pin. suffenus in a pair of birds that flew about out of gunshot, uttering a slender whistle entirely distinct from the grating croaking note of Nc. dominula which they otherwise emitted. Aug 23 A.M. clear and very cold with but little wind; saw but two G. flavipes and much to my surprise one Seal. On the back was a flock of Cal. arenaria feeding in a clm body with heads down followed by very numerous gowd). The Seadaws after the first glints of light still came into the marsh from the South end, and brally about by hundreds close to the tops of the tall grass: when their morning meal is finished and the sun rises, they collect on some fence rail sitting close together in