48 1872 February Two Piers pulascus, a Corticium and several can- paris of Spizella mont. Laurus atricapillus and one or two large flock of The. arivalis which with a few Crows and Bomasa umbellus spotted up some species. Feb 23 H. Dean went down to Chelsea beach where he found hundred of the. minuts, several males out of about a dozen they were in very perfect plumage with perfectly black and white plumage on the wings, but so was the common plumage formed as then I saw in the marsh a few weeks ago; the remainder are of the ordinary color but varied more than the large birds I took last winter. He saw multitudes of Laurus agensatus and repeatedly observed them take up large muscle shells high into the air and dropping them on the beach to break them following them quickly down and fasting on the opposed animal. He also observed large flocks of ducks probably Coots. 23 For the wood-shut found a very small snake Accipiter fuscus taken on Cape Cod, it was in perfectly adult plumage, the upper parts a uniform fine shiny blue color; for the stomach found the partially masticated main to of a Spig. montesta including the bill and legs and in the crop a cleanly plucked Ram's sheep, the intestinal portions of which were filled with large tapeworms about 1 1/4 inch long and apparently all dead. 26 Took the 8.15 barn car for Chelsea beach with H. A. Burdy, and arriving there at 9.30, found only a very few bird on the beach compared with the number seen the 23rd by R. Dean.