MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1875 Aug. 24 The swamps, the bulk of the bobshirts are gone but there are still a good many small flocks about. Aug. 21 & 22 I saw several small companies of night hawks passing S. at Sunset; All the swallows are still with me in greater or less abundance. Beside aleyon is getting abundant on York Pond. Nearly all the young Chry. Thrushes are now out of the nests, the chorus of crickets is now at its full height and the cicadas are beginning on the decline. No day I heard the first note of that unknown creature that fills the woods with its discordant chirpings in Sept. Shot 3 preps (one of them a 49. J. ornithite) and a kingfisher or 4 spots flying. Maynard received a young Corvus Carnivorus from Youngsbery Mass a few days since, the first for the state, [I afterwards purchased this specimen] Aug. 26 Clear and cool, Took the 2.30 P.M. boat for Long is. and arriving there found a room at the hotel and immediately set out for the shooting ground. Walking near the edge of a little fresh water pond hole I first startled a small flock of preps and among them two larger birds at which I fired a quick shot at long range and dropping one found that I had secured a very fine Piringeres superans, a young bird in the fall plumage. Its companion lit a short distance off in the pasture but although I chased it about for some time I found it