Trip to Marston's Mills, 165 1875. July 8 and last Dnd. discol. of which I took two mals. Herboetus leucostomus is quite common and I saw fin or six mostly immature birds. Capt. P.B. says they feed on the ponds back in the woods. In the open country Poertis graminus and Sturnella magna with Olype Rei, are the most abundant forms. The aggregate variety number of species, excluding of course littoral and oceanic varieties, I must be exceedingly small. Spent most of the day trolling for blue fish with Buck's flypoor and good and bad but only struck one, a fine fish which I played for fin or ten minutes but which ultimately escaped. July 9 clear and warm. Off at 8 A.M. in the Star. Nichols not feeling well and remaining on shore. Spent the entire day on the water fishing for blue fish of which I got as yesterday, I hooked a large one and after some fine play lost. While sailing quietly through a narrow channel came upon a Batorides vincens fishing; he crawled rather than walked along the muds with neck drawn in, bearing a striking resemblance to a huge mud turtle; at frequent intervals he would shoot out his bill almost horizontally and jidging by the waddling motion that succeeded, many very thrust was successful. Another beautiful sunset burnt throughs arising most gloriously.