30 1871 August. Rye Beach, N. H. I took for N. longirostris grassed our high, uttering a loud almost shrieking note. The flight of Peeps and A. Semipalmatus has been truly extraordinary for the last three or four days, frequently thousands passing through in the course of a few hours. Saturday morning a single specimen of Chroicocephalus bimaculatus was secured, a young bird in the gray plumage. Of large birds probably about 250 were observed during the day, heard the migrating Red-winged Auc. Aug. 26. Cloudy with cold N. East wind and driving sleet and rain. Early in the morning but very few flocks were seen. For the found forty or thirty large birds flew off stripes and G. cullant. In about four numbers, one flock of six of the latter being observed. I saw Noe. spines was also seen. In P.M. only a few stragglers were seen, but Parula Aves Obscura (can) in and after a most careful stalk I secured two of them. The Peeps flew to day in greater numbers than air, and in much clouds did they come that it would be utterly impossible to compute this number; thus largest flocks are nearly always led by a dozen or more A. Semipalmatus. The beach this year is made barren of birds only a few insignificant flocks having so far been seen there. There as an very day getting snow abundant over the bean.