132 MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1875. May 29 during the day also do. Squirrels now, of which latter to shot two. All these birds have been gone from Cambridge's vicinity for several days. I found also a nest of Cygnura cristata built in an oak sapling and containing 3 fresh eggs. Also a nest of Corvus Auk, in a pine, containing one young bird but a few days old. Around. Hiata is still abundant everywhere. Maynard found a Robin's nest a few days since built in a stone wall and containing eggs. May 31 Clear and a fine day. Rose at 6 and got off shortly after driving up to the Wilmington Plane where I left my horse and struck across to the swamp when J.P. Atkinson took two nests of Accipiter fusces from years ago. Wanted all the pines most faithfully but shot as nest in any of them, singularly enough not even an old crow or squirrels. On the ways back stumbled upon a nest of Strigoides maculatus containing 2 eggs to 1 of Pipilo erythrophthalmus both &. Both of them I left for full complements. The 2 Strigoides was sitting and my first warning of her hidden treasure was given by other tumbling out almost under my feet, and with drooping wings, tottering legs, and all the feathers of the camp curiously raised, she saw from 80 yds a yard away when she was joined by her mate and both standing motionless looked at me in perfect silence & artful evident apprehension.