The Greps and Ring Necked Plovers MASS. (Middlesex Co.) 1875. 183 Aug. 26. crammed with the hoppers. At least 100 birds were at one time feeding together presenting a curious and interesting appearance as they ran nimbly about, and when the flock was headed toward me for the first bright green turf seemed fairly alive with animated snow flakes! then in the rear kept constantly flying ahead and dropping in front of their companions so that the flock made rapid progress down the hillside, and reaching the foot all would turn together and after a few wheels fly back to the summit and pitch down again. During the afternoon I did not see a single large bird of any description. Aug. 27 After a sleepless night occasioned by a grand hop in the dance hall under my room when a band of 10 furies played till 3 A.M. I rose at 5:30 and dressing hurriedly went out on the island again but finding no birds of any account flying I returned and took the 8 A.M. boat up to the city. While walking along the edge of the flats I heard a single loud harsh resonant cry almost like the bark of a good and looking up saw a flock of about a dozen terns of large size flying our high up. What they were I cannot imagine as the note has an entirely new how to me.