192 Nantucket 1875. Nantucket Island Mass. Colymbus marinus Sept. 20 Left Boston on the 8 A.M. train with Messrs. Stone and Bailey and arrived at the city at 2.30 P.M. Engaged board at Reuben P. Folger's D 10.30 p.m. walk and getting out our guns we imme- diately set out for "the Commons". Found Colt. Passerinus in goodly numbers where C. J. M. & myself shot them in 74 and I killed 3 fine specimens, 2 in full plumage and the other 2 males in process of change. We found them in clumps comprising of 15 or 6 among the ranker growths of grass and now obliged to shoot them on wing as the lay very close and could not be seen on the ground. They were perfectly silent and fly very like P. Havanus. I also shot a Myiarchus Carolinensis in full plumage without the red patch on the crown. Sept 21 Clear and lovely day with a fresh S.W. wind. Started off together immediately after breakfast and borrowing a row boat of Mr. Burdett we started for Cotue point with a native S.D., Fisher by name who volunteered his services. On the end of the point I shot a Strix vulpina (y.y.) that was feeding among some big mussels along the drift at high water mark. I noticed nothing peculiar in his motions excepting perhaps that as I approached he flushed off away