28 1871 August long rows. About one or two G. flavipes. (Perhaps a dozen) and several Mac grises flew through the marsh. The grass is now being mown and the Peep are getting thicker and thicker every day. Did not go out in the afternoon but I think that there was no flight. Aug. 24. Heavy rain from the S. West all the night; stopped raining about 5 A.M. when I went down on the marsh. I saw a flock of about twenty G. flavipes accompanied by nearly fifty Peeps drove through and, a discharge of both barrels seemed gun one of which proved to be Mic. himantus. Several others G. flav were also shot and our Mac. grises in various plumage). All the G. flavipes are now young with none than one or a dozen being adult and all are very fat indeed earlier in the season it was seldom that I took one in good condition. In the forenoon I pulled out to me about a quarter of a mile and found rather to my surprise, Thalassodromus Wilmot quite abundant and was informed by the fishermen that there or few miles but they were very numerous and tame coming frequently so near as to be knocked down with this oars. Saw also Sturnus hirundo or macronura, and Chara agrestis, most of the latter adults. On a rocky point saw five or seven Strix intush and several flocks of Cal. arenaria. For the P.M., there was a small flight of 2 flavipes with a few G. melanotus.